Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate mailing list for the subject or not. If not, please let me know the right place for this discussion. debian-u...@lists.debian.org There are a few features that would

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-14 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:44:43 +0200 Gergely Nagy alger...@madhouse-project.org wrote: You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will refuse to install it. For example, with the following

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: * It can prioritize the packages based on there importance, how frequently they are used, possible security risks and manual configurations. http://packages.debian.org/lenny/debsecan I would really appreciate any ideas and

Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Eliad Bagherzadegan
Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate mailing list for the subject or not. If not, please let me know the right place for this discussion. There are a few features that would probably improve Debian's package Management system (at least based on my needs). And maybe they exist

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate mailing list for the subject or not. If not, please let me know the right place for this discussion. There are a few features that would probably improve Debian's package

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:26:02AM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: [...] This program should periodically check the bug tracking system for bugs in installed packages and report to the system administrator. [...] While not necessarily a perfect match for the criteria you mention, you'll

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Peter De Wachter
Op Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:26:02 +0430 schreef Eliad Bagherzadegan eliad.bagherzade...@gmail.com: 2. The ability to ban certain packages and (possibly) there dependent packages. So that they wouldn't show up in the package manager at all. You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200 Peter De Wachter pdewa...@gmail.com wrote: You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will refuse to install it. For example, with the following stanza apt will

Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

2011-06-13 Thread Gergely Nagy
Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by writes: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:25:29 +0200 Peter De Wachter pdewa...@gmail.com wrote: You can do something like this using apt pinning. If you assign a negative priority to a package, it will still be listed but apt will refuse to install it. For