[PATCH] pkgsel: remove final use of aptitude (was: pkgsel: please clarify intention of "|| aptfailed")

2014-01-30 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hi Please consider reapplying the attached patch to remove the last reliance on aptitude within d-i (pkgsel). There is many months for testing, though no regressions are anticipated as per the previous mails: On 6 August 2012 15:34, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 6 August 2012 14:33, Christ

Re: Bug#496068: [synaptic] include debian internet repository by default on new installations

2013-04-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Control: retitle -1 debian-installer: no non-security mirror configured after no-network install Control: reassign -1 debian-installer CSights wrote: > Package: synaptic > Version: 0.62 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > I just finished installing "Lenny" from the test CD1. At the time of >

Downgrading apt-xapian-index from Recommends to Suggests

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello This bug [1] is from a user who installed on a system with very little amount of memory. The issue is apt-xapian-index (“axi”) updates it's index and makes the system very unresponsive. The use case for axi in aptitude is rather small. It is used to accelerate “aptitude search” on the co

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 10 September 2012 06:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > If anybody wants to see something land into this release, it would be > nice to mention it now instead of after the end of the merge window. Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude (following the same change in tasksel)

Re: pkgsel: please clarify intention of "|| aptfailed"

2012-08-06 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 6 August 2012 14:33, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> These semantics could be enforced by replacing use of aptitude with >> equivalent calls to apt-get, or updating aptitude to 0.6.9 series (in >> experimental) which can report the errors similar to apt-get. IMO >> apt-get is preferable because it

pkgsel: please clarify intention of "|| aptfailed"

2012-08-05 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Hello d-i team [alt. subject: system state after successful run of pkgsel is indeterminate] Within pkgsel postinst there are a couple uses of aptitude, and one of tasksel. The invocations are: 1. apply security updates in-target sh -c "debconf-apt-progress --from 50 --to 100 --logstderr -- ap

Re: Freeze exception request: aptitude 0.6.9-1

2012-07-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 9 July 2012 07:45, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Grepping my d-i directory (contained many d-i related package checkouts) Thanks for pointing this out, I had not identified d-i packages when searching for Depends: aptitude. I had assumed that d-i was using apt-get and it's more predictable interfa

Re: Freeze exception request: aptitude 0.6.9-1

2012-07-08 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 9 July 2012 07:45, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> The new version is available on mentors.d.n, we will not upload >> however unless granted a freeze exception. > > Having it uploaded to experimental would be an idea for the time being, > so that people can (in an opt-in fashion) test it. I have upd