On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which
> deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know?
> Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages
> in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems
> such as not being able to install ghostview because gs-aladdin is not
> installed, but not installing gs-aladdin because ghostview failed to
> configure).
>
> If I could get it to generate a script that issues dpkg -iOEGB
> in the right order without me having to manually construct such a tree as
> you suggest below, that would be a large step in the right direction.
Okay, I'll work on that. Besides, the current method of recursing through
stable, non-free, and contrib just to install one or two packages takes
way too long on my 386-40 or 486-66. When dselect is loaded, it locks the
database. You can't use it as a viewer/selector and run dpkg on another
console at the same time.
When do you want it ready? Probably yesterday, like me.
>
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> > >
> > > just off the top of my head, but how about using deselect to select the
> > > packages, then replacing /var/lib/dpkg/status on the other machines with
> > > this file from the master? Then master downloads the files by ftp (or
> > > whatever), and the others get their files from master?
> >
> > This works for me. I often have to do this when playing with the bo
> > packages. You could easily put it in a script with proper checking of
> > dpkg exit() codes.
> >
> > 1) nfs is used (/mirrors/debian is a symlink to /mnt/dx2/mirrors/debian)
> > 2) use dselect or view Packages to get dependencies
> > 3) something like this:
> > cd /mirrors/debian/bo/libs
> > dpkg -i neededlib1*
> > dpkg -i neededlib2*
> > cd ../admin
> > dpkg -i wantedapp*
>
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