On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:58:09AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> writes: > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 02:18:49AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Here I think we can go one of two ways: > >> 2) "bootstrap" scripts are only executed after the owners (Pre-)Depends > >> have been unpacked. This would allow base-files to setup the links based > >> on available packages and some internal preference list. In this > >> scenario I think base-files should set up /bin/sh and /usr/bin/awk and > >> gain a Pre-Depends: system-shell. > > This will work now. But needs a lot of work to move the system-shell > > name later to another package. > Why? To move it the new package would Pre-Depend on system-shell, gain a > "bootstrap" script and possibly conflict with older base-files.
I thought about moving the name "system-shell", aka the provides. This proposal means that base-files needs to know about all packages that provides the name. Then we can drop the provides alltogether. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110411144819.ga19...@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org
