Hi, Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:28:45PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > The package "ikarus", another programming language implementation, > > also requires SSE2 support. > > There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if > > sse2 is unavailable. > One of my packages works only on certain CPUs and by design it fails to > start on others. The package starts its initscript on install, so the > installation fails on unsupported hardware. I have a grave bug #738927 > asking me to fix this behavior and I was told by someone on IRC to leave > it as is. Now I see there are other people doing this so I think I should > ask here for more opinions. > IMHO it's perfectly reasonable to be able to install a package which cannot immediately run.
Another example would be a program which needs a lot of RAM or disk space to work. Or a reachable database server. But when I prepare a VM image for that program, I may not yet have the RAM available, or I pre-generate a backup system image, or … You might want to pop up a preinst debconf notice which tells the admin that the package will not run here (with an option to fail the install if it's an honest mistake). -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140916100224.gc2...@smurf.noris.de
