On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 02:23:01PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Unfortunately, what we need to do is press for the dpkg features that > we're going to need, since this may take a long time to actually > appear. Someone needs to formulate this list and make sure the > debian-dpkg and the herring lists (new dpkg) are aware of our needs. > > Possible set of new dpkg needs: > > * ability to filter files installed by path glob or regexp > (i.e., don't install /usr/share/man/ja* or whatever)
This one is a must, not only for I18N. Helas, it's also the harder to implement (and I would prefer to see versionized depends first ;) Maybe should will based it on dpkg-divert with a special /dev/null diversion target and a pre-hook that list the content of the to-be-installed packages (just like debconf parse all packages first), than dpkg-divert --erase those ones matching the regexp rules? So, it seems feasible to me. > > * ability to comprehend a new package state, "installed properly but > some files removed" (do we need this?) Why? Maybe just a way to check that the file lists is different than what really install. Using dpkg-divert --list --erase should do the work. > > * ability to reinstall "some files removed" pacakges when the > file-system based removal scheme changes Simply reinstall the packages? We should be able to list all files removed, check them against the new regexp rules, find the packages that has files that no more matche the regexp and ask apt/dpkg to reinstall them. Not a dpkg job, IMHO. > > Any other features? A good debconf scripts to manipulate the configuration? > > -- > .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> > Regards, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
