On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do we want to persue this? And do we want to persue this for 2.0? > > It will live in parallel with the old methods while it has different > names from them, so I think it's OK to pursue on that basis. Certainly > it would be nice if the FTP method always did the right thing. > Will it keep you from any critical items of the user interface?
I will have to take a look at the dpkg manual to see exactly what a method is expected to do, but to my knowledge, the [U]pdate command is directly dpkg-get update and the [I]nstall command is almost directly dpkg-get upgrade - the only difference is that it has to read a bit more into the status field [respect remove and new-install], no big deal. Some perl code to handle the setup of the sources.list file and viola! So, since I am not a perl person, anyone want to write a query script that outputs lines of the format specified in the files.sgml document into /etc/deity/sources.list? The other needed thing is a small perl script to do FTP's (again, based on what files.sgml says). A lot of testing and debian 2.0 might have a safer install method.. If the program was finished by next Monday and we got the cooperation of everyone on debian-devel to test it at least once I think it might be workable to include in the release. At the very least it provides a way for people to test some very crucial code on a broad scale. Come to think of it, that is the best reason to develop this further than a test program - it allows the 2 most important components (aquire and dependancy checking) to be tested in the real world. Jason
