*- Ingo Hohmann wrote about "Re: dselect (or apt) wish list"
> Well, there's one little thing I'd like to add ...
>
> I use apt 0.1.5 on Hamm, and I'd like to put all
> paths to packages into one sources.lists file.
> But the packages are on different CD
Well, there's one little thing I'd like to add ...
I use apt 0.1.5 on Hamm, and I'd like to put all
paths to packages into one sources.lists file.
But the packages are on different CDs, and the
apt method of dselect exits with an error
if one of the paths isn't accessible.
Ingo
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Ingo Hohmann
On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zack Brown) wrote:
>[lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped]
Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the
skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but
here's my wishlist for those that might care to l
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Easy... as suggested, change the `apt-get clean && ...` line from
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install to something thus - `true && ...`
OK - i know how to change it now, but nevertheless i think the default
should be to ask the user when something is
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually need them)
>
> apt is very *bad* i
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually need them)
>
> apt is very *bad* i
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> (Unless you actually need them)
apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,
Zack Brown writes:
> Someone said 'apt' does. But 'apt' also deletes the package files once they
> are installed (it doesn't even ask if that's what I want), which is another
> wish I raised below.
hasler/~ ll /var/cache/apt/archives/
total 335
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318440 Oct 16 13:
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote...
> > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no', or
> > else it be made possible to change the default via a config file. I really
> > hate having a s
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Bottom line: this is a very small and easy-to-grant wish, but for those who
> want it, it's a big, hard-to-get-around problem. i.e. it prevents me from
> using apt, since apt deletes installed packages automatically; and with
> dselect, I have to be *
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote:
[snip]
> > I can think of a good one that really bugs me. Using the apt method from
> > dselect, if a single package fails to download the none of the packages
> > are installed.
>
> Why wouldn't they be installed? (I don't use apt.) I would've thought
> the
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:23:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
I'll try to respond to several people's responses in this one message, to
Hello George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote:
> > Hello Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >
> > > I suggest that, by default, dependencies should be downloaded
> > > before the files that depend upon them.
> >
> > Any particular reason?
>
> I can think of a g
Hello,
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On 11 Nov 1998q, Jiri Baum wrote:
> > > Hello Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > >
> > > > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > > > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no'
...
> >
Hello,
John Forest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Jiri Baum wrote:
...
> > Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more.
...
> What if this procedure needs to be repeated on a network of debian boxes?
> Would be redundant to get the packages for each machine, IMO.
Of course. Hen
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Zack Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For what it's worth, here's a wishlist for debian install scripts (in no
> particular order).
>
> 1) There doesn't seem to be any order regarding which packages are
> downloaded first. I suggest that, by default, dependencies s
> On 11 Nov 1998q, Jiri Baum wrote:
> > Hello Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >
> > > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no'
> > ...
> >
> > Well, once you've installed them, you usua
Jiri Baum wrote:
> [ snip ]
>
>
> Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more.
>
What if this procedure needs to be repeated on a network of debian boxes?
Would be redundant to get the packages for each machine, IMO.
John.
On 11 Nov 1998q, Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no'
> ...
>
> Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need th
Hello Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> I suggest that, by default, dependencies should be downloaded
> before the files that depend upon them.
Any particular reason?
> Likewise, there doesn't seem to be any order in installation. I
> suggest the same thing for that.
Doesn't make any differenc
Before the rest of this thread gets way out of hand
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For what it's worth, here's a wishlist for debian install scripts (in no
> particular order).
>
> 1) There doesn't seem to be any order regarding which packages are
> downloaded first. I su
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Zack Brown wrote:
> 5) It would be great to do the following: take the output of "dpkg -l" and
> feed it to dselect, so dselect automatically selects all the packages given.
Pehaps dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections do what you
want.
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Zack Brown wrote:
> 4) It would be great to have a utility that searched my .dpkg/ tree and
> identified any debs for which newer versions have already been downloaded.
> That way I could delete the old ones and save space.
Are there .lsm's for each .deb in the ftp server? Y
Hi,
For what it's worth, here's a wishlist for debian install scripts (in no
particular order).
1) There doesn't seem to be any order regarding which packages are
downloaded first. I suggest that, by default, dependencies should be
downloaded before the files that depend upon them. Likewise, ther
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