Non-interactive installs [Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade]

1998-01-05 Thread David Frey
On Sat, Jan 3 1998 17:38 +0100 Richard Braakman writes: Christian Schwarz wrote: [Immediate-Configure: Yes field] [...] An Immediate-Configure field will help with 2, but I think there is a better solution. If there is a way to specify that a package's postinst is _not interactive_, then

Re: Non-interactive installs [Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade]

1998-01-05 Thread bruce
I think there should be a set-params script in all packages that require interaction. This script should get params from the user, store them in COAS repository, and then the pre-inst and post-inst should use those parameters, getting them from COAS. The set-params script should not require that

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: 'Christian Schwarz wrote:' On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Richard Braakman
Christian Schwarz wrote: [Immediate-Configure: Yes field] If I recall correctly, there were two reasons for delaying the configuration step until all packages had been unpacked: 1.- Packages are more likely to have their dependencies satisfied if all of the packages being installed

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Christian Schwarz wrote:' On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you didn't say why :-) The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev will be to remove the Conflicts: libc5-dev line from its package description. This is part of the

Re[2]: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 3:06:02 PM | Richard wrote about need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you didn't say why :-) The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 1 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone pretty please do this? I have been talking with David about helping out here. I'll take a look at his

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
OK, I think the patch is only necessary for libc5 run-time. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
It looks as if Richard has taken care of libc5, and libc5-altdev doesn't need a change. Dale, did you do the ae-using-slang upload? I'm going to need that soon. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 2 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks as if Richard has taken care of libc5, and libc5-altdev doesn't need a change. Dale, did you do the ae-using-slang upload? I'm going to need that soon. I've been out of town, and just got back this evening. I already have the patches, (got them

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to me

need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone pretty please do this? Also, it looks to me as if libc6 depends on versions of kernel-headers and kernel-source that are _not_ in hamm at the

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:08:44AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone pretty please do this? I've tried to, but it missed a description for the -dbg

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread Richard Braakman
I started compiling libc5 with Ray Dassen's patch. It will probably take a few hours to complete. I changed the patch a bit more. I added the following lines to the control entry for libc5-dev: Conflicts: libc (4.6.27-11), libc-dev Provides: libc-dev Replaces: ppp (2.2.0f-22) I took

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
Richard, Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to me that we can make this