Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Tim Wegner wrote: 2. One irritation it would be nice to fix (though it may go beyond the quick upgrade to EigerStein2Beta philosophy) would be to somehow extend the 256 character limit of the syslinux.cfg APPEND= line. When I add a second drive to PKGPATH and add serial support, I'm over

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
A couple of requests. 1. It would be useful to integrate one the extended scripts unto DachStein. (You probably already thought of this :-) snip So it would be nice for DachStein to be EigerStein2beta workalike (e.g. with the network defaults as I mentioned above) with the added

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-12 Thread David Douthitt
Dale Long wrote: The extra package elements you are describing here might make a flexible way to implement a configuration template for text based and web based configuration. Eg: pkg.web or pkg.setup-template Took me a minute to realize what you were saying but that is (almost)

[Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread David Douthitt
I propose the following updates to packages, and would like to start using them: pkg.sh Shell script which takes a parameter - one of: preinst postinst prerem postrem ...executed by apkg at times indicated pkg.descConf file describing package:

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I propose the following updates to packages, and would like to start using them: pkg.sh Shell script which takes a parameter - one of: preinst postinst prerem postrem ...executed by apkg at times indicated pkg.descConf file describing

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I think the pkg.req should be based on a functionality list, not a simple package name. There should also be some way to differentiate versions and/or functionality. For instance, it's probably important to be able to tell the difference between glibc versions,

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-07-11 10:42 -0400 Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I'd like to see a 'ground-up' effort including the new c libraries, 2.2/2.4 kernel support, the new packaging system (likely apkg on steroids), and other enhancements. I don't see any reason to tie these changes to

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I think the pkg.req should be based on a functionality list, not a simple package name. There should also be some way to differentiate versions and/or functionality. For instance, it's probably important to be able to tell the difference between glibc versions, and between POSIXness,

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
David, Would it be a good idea for us to follow the LSB 1.0 specs? http://www.linuxbase.org/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsb AFAIK, we can't follow LSB and still fit on a floppy, but we should probably try to not break any LSB rules. It may be possible to make a superset of some LEAF

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Tim Wegner
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I'd like to see Dachstein be a fairly straight-forward update to the Materhorn/Eiger series disks. I hope to get this done in the near term ... This a would be worthwhile. A couple of requests. 1. It would be useful to integrate one the extended scripts unto

Re: [Leaf-devel] More packaging enhancements

2001-07-11 Thread Dale Long
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote: For me, I almost hesitated to put that in - but the way I build packages (main binary in bin.lrp, needed dynamic libraries in libX.lrp) adding requirements is a big win. However, these are my goals: 1. Simplicity 2. Simplicity 3. Simplicity :-)