Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons "): > > However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution > > might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH > > environment variable that ensu

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-29 Thread Bruce Perens
> However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution > might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH > environment variable that ensures that the version of > start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'. Clever. This is made somewhat more sloppy by the fact t

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-28 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution > might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH > environment variable that ensures that the version of > start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'. This is the b

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
CD Rasmussen writes ("Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons "): > Rather than naming the effect you want, not starting daemons, I would > think it better to name the situation, like DEB_BASE_BUILD or > something. Now as time goes on, the scripts wil

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread CD Rasmussen
Go, Bruce of Pixar, and let thy shadow be cast across the concrete ... (just warming up for my trip) Costa To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens), [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Going to the Shakespeare festival?

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
I'd be happy to support both "NO_STARTSTOP_DAEMON" and "CROSS_INSTALL". Bruce

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bill Mitchell
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think the situation I described could be named "cross-installation". > There are other cases than building the base where one might want to > install to a different filesystem than the one currently running. Thus > perhaps CROSS_INSTALL=1 is the flag to use. If

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bill Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) said: > I think we should agree on an environment variable that I can set to > tell the pre- and post-inst scripts not to start of kill daemons. > Would "DEBIAN_NO_DAEMONS=1;export DEBIAN_NO_DAEMONS" > be an appropriate thing to use? Should each individual maintai

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
I think the situation I described could be named "cross-installation". There are other cases than building the base where one might want to install to a different filesystem than the one currently running. Thus perhaps CROSS_INSTALL=1 is the flag to use. If I don't hear much objection to that today

Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread CD Rasmussen
x27;s business. Costa Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 21:38 PDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons Part of the process of building the base disks involves installing all of the base packages

pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

1995-10-27 Thread Bruce Perens
Part of the process of building the base disks involves installing all of the base packages on an "alternate root", that is using the "--root" argument of "dpkg" to set its idea of the root to the directory in which I'm building the base. When I do this, I see a lot of messages about not being abl