The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: pre/post install scripts and pre-depends

I am not sure what you want. I can scan for the interpreter of all scripts
and have dependencies for those interpreters if thats it.

I am rather dissatisfied with the current scheme of unpacking things
done through dselect. Deferring the configuration of a package
has led to the downing of our newsserver.....

How about having dselect immediately configure a package after install
while unpacking the next? Then we dont need predependencies.

There is also a problem with suidmanager having to be configured before
packages using it are installed. 

I think that issue will come up on multiple levels. Having a package
immediately configured gets rid of the need for a pre-depends.

Please do not use my business e-mail address for debian related issues.

On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

bruce >Ian Jackson has the final say on dpkg-related policies. I dislike perl
bruce >but it's diffficult to make a complex installation script in bash, and
bruce >you end up relying on a larger tool-set than perl - sed, cut, paste,
bruce >etc. I'd prefer that {pre,post}{install,rm} scripts be written for bash
bruce >if at all possible.
bruce >
bruce >I think it makes sense for _all_ packages to have a pre-dependency on
bruce >the package that provides the interpreter for their
bruce >{pre/post}{install/rm}.
bruce >
bruce >Christophe, can you make "debmake" provide this pre-dependency if it
bruce >does not do so presently?

--- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ ---
PGP Public Key  =  FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33  C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5 


--
Please respect the confidentiality of material on the debian-private list.
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-private-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com