Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Henning Glawe
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:53:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Monday 20 June 2005 14:29, you wrote: > > > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. > > ?! > > prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with > > apt; if an updated sources.lis

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 20 June 2005 14:29, you wrote: > > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. > ?! > prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with > apt; if an updated sources.list points to sarge while it pointed before at > woody, you are able t

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Henning Glawe
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:55:54PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > it is necassairy, if you are (ab-)using softupdates for dist-upgrades. > > Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. ?! prepareapt copies the dpkg and apt conffiles _before_ messing around with apt; if an

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 20 June 2005 08:22, you wrote: > it is necassairy, if you are (ab-)using softupdates for dist-upgrades. Why ? If you do softupdates, your machine has been set up allready. > But > I agree the current implementation in FAI not ideal, but my proposed > changes were not accepted into

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-19 Thread Henning Glawe
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:34:32AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > task_prepareapt is (IMO) unneccessarily run during softupdates. it is necassairy, if you are (ab-)using softupdates for dist-upgrades. But I agree the current implementation in FAI not ideal, but my proposed changes were not accepte

Bug#315000: don't run prepareapt on softupdates

2005-06-19 Thread Holger Levsen
package: fai version: 2.8.4 Hi, task_prepareapt is (IMO) unneccessarily run during softupdates. This is bad, as it overwrites (and corrupts) /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf is "only" overwritten. fcopy could really allow more control here. regards, Holger pgpYjtCXc1tRt.pgp Descriptio