Hi, On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > That's a pretty handy tool - would you be interested in an option to > start the remote recovery that's being discussed in a nearby thread?
The design of friendly-recovery makes it easy to drop-in scripts, I wasn't following this thread, but it would certainly be possible to drop in something into /usr/share/recovery-mode/options that is then available in the recovery menu. > Also, how would you feel if I suggested the options/dpkg script to the > APT development team as the basis for an init script? I don't expect it > would add more than a few seconds to boot time (or less if there's a > lockfile that they can check for the existence of), and it would tackle > the specific issue I had, where the problem presented as a missing home > directory, and only turned out to be a package installation issue after > much investigation. I would prefer to make the package repair a explicit choice by the user. It may require manual input (conffile questions, debconf prompts, maintainer script prompts) so it is safer to handle when we know that a human is available. update-manager has support to deal with most brokeness in the packages system nowdays (interrupted dpkg, broken dependencies, packages in req-reinstall state, ...) and update-notifier will display a error symbol that will call update-manager. That should cover most of the desktop use-cases. The friendly-reocvery package with dpkg repair mode is now also available in hardy-proposed and should become available to hardy-updates soonish. Thanks, Michael -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
