On 16-Mar-00, 21:33 (CST), Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is
released.
Oh, absolutely. However, Wichert wrote woody+2, which seemed
excessive (at current rate of release, that's about 2003.)
--
Steve
Previously Tom Rothamel wrote:
The problem I have is that dpkg keeps on prompting me as to the
disposition of config files I have changed. Don't get me wrong, I like
the fact that it asks me what to do... I just wish it would do it at
the start, and proceed cleanly through the upgrade without
It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would
be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels
libapt. This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the
apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:24:47PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
One other question: Does anyone think having a never ask about this
config file again option is a good thing? I'm torn.
Not on a per-conffile basis, I think. Maybe there should be a way to make
the default for _all_ conffiles be
On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
point I'ld like to generalize
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:36:15PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
There is already a patch to make
On 16 Mar 2000 20:14:47 -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
It's rather slow, since you need to unpack the .deb to get the md5sums
for its conffiles, read /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to see if a conffiles
still belongs to a package, /var/lib/dpkg/status to get the previous
md5sums, etc.
Actually,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Tom Rothamel wrote:
One of the minor annoyances in Debian is the prompting that goes on
during package upgrades. It's not the fact that the prompting
occurs... I like the fact that it doesn't silently redo the system
configuration... but rather the
sounds nice.
there's another thing about apt-get which IMHO should be changed (if this
option already exists i'm sorry for being too lame for the docs): my
connection often suffers time-outs and i afterwards have to do a
--fix-missing. i think it would be nice if you could tell apt-get to try
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:25:10PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
In /etc/apt/sources.list add these lines:
DPkg
{
Options {--force-confdef;}
}
This will make dpkg always choose the default option to the conffile
questions. If there is no default, it will still prompt (not likely), so
you
- When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if there would be some
On 16 Mar 2000 16:06:34 -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if there would be some way to integrate this with the existing
debconf system -- if it uses the same interface, etc., end-users will be
much happier.
I plan to
Debconf integration doesn't seem all that likely, as the two are
fairly orthagonal. (In the Debian world, configuration and
configuration files seem to be rather distinct things.)
Yes, they're pretty distinct, but it seems a little counterintuitive to
have to configure a package twice: once
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