Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:54, Erik Schanze (Debian) schan...@gmx.de wrote: Does anybody have an additionally idea how to solve this, to prevent the removal of one package without hanging on user input and prevent automatic inclusion in PBuilder installation? With my APT hat on i can tell you

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:54, Erik Schanze (Debian) schan...@gmx.de wrote: Does anybody have an additionally idea how to solve this, to prevent the removal of one package without hanging on user input and prevent automatic inclusion in PBuilder

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
2011/6/13 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org: David Kalnischkies kalnischk...@gmail.com writes: What could be done is tweaking resolver scoring points, but honestly: that is black-magic even for me -- and as you can only change this for priorities it has side-effects for other packages with

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2011-06-13 12:56, David Kalnischkies wrote: With my APT hat on i can tell you that APT (and friends) currently have no option to forbid the removal of packages without other side-effects. Please refrain from uncondionally stating something about friends' functionality. Libcupt actually

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-12 Thread Erik Schanze (Debian)
Hi Russ, thank you for you response. Am 09.06.2011 23:31, schrieb Russ Allbery: Erik Schanze (Debian) schan...@gmx.de writes: - Upgrade process hangs waiting for the user input This should only happen if you run it interactively. If you don't run it interactively, then it should

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2011 06:00 PM, Erik Schanze (Debian) wrote: Yes, you are right. One disadvantage seems to be solved, but the drawback with PBuilder remains. I could try some exclude options in PBuilder command line, but an other way would be better. Has noone and idea? Or would it better to ask on

How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-09 Thread Erik Schanze (Debian)
Hi mentors, hope this is the right list for it, I wouldn't abuse debian-devel for it. [please keep me on CC, I'm not subscribed] I maintain a custom Debian installation on Clients without any user interaction during upgrade, so everything has to go automatically. I created a meta package to

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Erik Schanze (Debian) schan...@gmx.de writes: I maintain a custom Debian installation on Clients without any user interaction during upgrade, so everything has to go automatically. I created a meta package to define dependencies to all packages I need on the clients and I'd like to make this