Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bob Proulx wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I can't

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bob Proulx wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I can't

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Kster
Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? Look at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt , | Packages must not modify other packages'

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Kster
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Frank Kster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? Look at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt , |

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? Look at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt , | Packages must not modify other packages'

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? Look at http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt , |

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the

backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems, we want to have our own little package, that configures the autofs

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems,

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Kster
Eric Winger [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems, we want to have our own

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even Depend on a package and

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends on the foobar

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? Dependency means that a package with a foobar script

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: I'm thinking there's got to be a higher level way of handling this type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even Depend on a package

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: The question, basically is this: How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)? The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems,