Hi,
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm
Rob lazy), is that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of
Rob writing manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have
Rob a manpage info-documented.1.gz that says
Hi,
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think I disagree. Letting developers who can't write shell
scripts can in no way be in the interests of the project, one of
whose goals is *excellence*.
Rob Sure it can. It depends on what
Hi,
Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marcus On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 09:09:07AM -0500, Branden Robinson
Marcus wrote:
So finally, here's my proposed solution:
xtrs should install two zero-length files:
/usr/lib/xtrs/model1rom.bin /usr/lib/xtrs/model3rom.bin
and flag
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
I agree that the policy should be clarified. In short: Symbolic links
_within_ a top level directory should be relative, symbolic links
_between_ top level directories should be absolute.
Examples how things
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
The problem with this that have came up during this discussion was that
some packages have files like this, that are a few MB in size (ie, the
lambdamoo database, the dosemu hdimage). These files are obviously way to big
Joey Hess wrote:
The problem with this that have came up during this discussion was
that some packages have files like this, that are a few MB in size
(ie, the lambdamoo database, the dosemu hdimage). These files are
obviously way to big to be generated by the postinst. Manoj made
several
Hi,
Could I get an interpretaion of the policy on this message,
point by point? (I mean that. I have put thought into these
questions, I merely ask for the courtesy of some thought in the
responses). Please pardon the redundancy, I think I feel strongly on
this issue.
Hi,
I do not think that packages should be putting conffiles in
user home directories, even if the user is root. So far, the files in
root have been 2 or 3 lines long; I do not see why they should be
longer, but even longer files in .toot/,bash* could be created in the
postinst
Hi,
[moving this to debian-policy]
I just do not think packages should eb putting conffiles into
user dorectories at any other time than initial install. And /root is
close to being /home/root, except that /root has to be on the root
file system. I think files in
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Zed Pobre wrote:
Shar-utils.
Or perl doing uuencode.
This leaves you with a huge postinst file (probably 2x the size of the
actual file it generates), sitting in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. IMHO, worse than
just installing a copy of the file into /usr/lib/
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've noticed what seems to be a common problem lately: daemons that do not
chdir / on startup. The problem is, if you mount a debina cd on /mnt, cd to
/mnt, install some daemons, then /mnt is always busy after that and cannot
be unmounted. The solution is
Guy Maor wrote:
This leaves you with a huge postinst file (probably 2x the size of the
actual file it generates), sitting in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. IMHO, worse than
just installing a copy of the file into /usr/lib/
gzip + uuencode.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/build/lambdacore-02feb97ls -l
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On 24 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
There is no need for conffiles in /root; I'd be happy to
provide patches to the postinst if the maintainer feels unsure about
coding it.
I mostly agree. Current base-files_1.7.postinst now says:
#!/bin/sh
Hi,
Not everything that should be fixed is a policy violation
(though I believe we should consider conffiles in user dirctories a
no-no in policy). Why should a user (even root) have *.dpk-dist
cluttering up what should be their domain (it is their home
directory, after all).
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On 25 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
the default files are puerile [...]
If you must have these files to copy into /root, keep them in
/usr/lib/basefiles (which is not in the root partition) [...]
Mmm, should I create a subdirectory in /usr/lib
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Compared to that, the default files are puerile. It is
annoying to have little control over my home directory as root, and
b) have to delete those files over and over again since they
Santiago Vila wrote:
Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed conffiles)
and I don't think it is right to make a program to benefit from
bugs in other programs...
I've always hated this behavoir, but it's my understanding it's intentional
(a feature, not a bug ;-).
--
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed
conffiles) and I don't think it is right to make a program to
benefit from bugs in other programs...
I've always hated this behavoir, but it's my understanding it's
intentional (a
On 25 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
I would propose that no package keep files in user home
directories as a policy. This is not hard to do, and it would allow
the user full control over their home directory, which is a right we
should respect.
Right. I'm wondering why we
On 24 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Could I get an interpretaion of the policy on this message,
point by point? (I mean that. I have put thought into these
questions, I merely ask for the courtesy of some thought in the
responses). Please pardon the redundancy, I
What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm lazy), is
that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of writing
manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have a manpage
info-documented.1.gz that says more or less
The documentation for package foo is
[You (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?=)]
[Rob
Browning]
What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm lazy), is
that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of writing
manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have a manpage
info-documented.1.gz that says
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