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Ok... Just some comments.
I just got some crude debian autoinstall mechanism running for my
organisation, which does a dpkg -install from a perl expect script, which
scans the output of dpkg for keywords which it reacts to. I would have
liked a more beautiful ap
Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A good way to start would be to seperate the unpacking and
> installation from the configuration.
>
> dpkg should start one thread to extract a package, when a package is
> done a second threat is signaled and the next is extracted.
>
> The second thread c
Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dpkg should start one thread to extract a package, when a package is
> done a second threat is signaled and the next is extracted.
>
> The second thread configures the package. If any question is to be
> asked, the controll is given to a third threat and the
Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...]
> > Andreas> I'd like to integrate more of the bookkeeping tasks into the
> > Andreas> debian system, like being able to display a list of
> > Andreas> warnings/errors after installation is finishe
Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >>
> > >> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
> > >> state?
> >
> > Drake>It's a reminder
Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you take a static list of questions for a package, you have to
> answer _all_ questions, even if in the postinst many questions are
> conditionally asked depending on the answers to other questions or the
> state of the system
No. You have to allow s
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[...]
> > > I prefer the approach to ask questions first, and configure as
> > >
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Why can't you ask all the questions first? I am too thnking of
> the kernel image package. I can easily design a framework that
> gathers all the data a priori -- and yes, you have a point;
> Andreas> because the questions depend on th
Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >>
> > >> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
> > >> state?
> > Drake>It's a reminder to me t
Hi,
>>"Andreas" == Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I prefer the approach to ask questions first, and configure as
>> it installs. If we are spending time to do this, we should do this
>> right.
Andreas> In general, you can'
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
> >> state?
>
> Drake>It's a reminder to me that I need to configure this package still.
>
>
Hi,
>>"Drake" == Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
>> state?
Drake>It's a reminder to me that I need to configure this package still.
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
> state?
It's a reminder to me that I need to configure this package still.
> This shall certainly play havoc with large scale upgrades,
> when latter pack
Hi,
A short while ago, Ian proposed a specification for an
"Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts".
I thought that the spec was very well thought out, and really,
the best bet for Debian were we to put in serious work on the
project. (Unfortunately, some of th
Hi,
What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured
state? This shall certainly play havoc with large scale upgrades,
when latter packages require earlier packages to be configured. To be
absolutely certain, you may, in the worst case, have to set up and
configure packages o
I was reading an rpm vs. dpkg, interactive vs non-interactive thread on
debian-private (?) when I had the following idea.
What happens to a typical postinst script if you kill it when it tries to
read from stdin?
apt, dselect, or dpkg could have a non-interactive mode. When attempting
to
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