On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:29:46PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Changing this would allow installs to not have the whole dependency > tree of gnupg, while still providing the upgrade path that the recent > upload of apt was done to provide. > > [Upgrades would install debian-archive-keyring, which would install > gnupg if Recommends are set to be installed.] Which is not the case by default with apt-get. If we want to provide a clean upgrade path, then this changs is not the right thing to do. OTOH apt-get update will print a helpful message that it can't check signatures because of the missing gnupg so it wouldn't be too much of a problem.
What is the problem with depending on gnupg? Is is the size of the package? Cheers, Michael > 13:21:41 <peterS> pusling: I'm not talking about apt recommending the > keyring, but the keyring recommending gnupg > 13:22:04 <dondelelcaro> right, which would resolve the issue > 13:22:10 <dondelelcaro> since the keyring is small, it's no big deal > 13:22:16 <Q_> dondelelcaro: It seems recommends don't get installed on > upgrade, so you'd have debian-archive-keyring without > gnupg. > 13:22:24 <dondelelcaro> Q_: no, you wouldn't > 13:22:46 <dondelelcaro> Q_: if you already had debian-archive-keyring, > you'd have gpg. If you didn't, you'd get it > installed if you were isntalling > debian-archive-keyring for the first time > 13:22:59 <dondelelcaro> (Assuming you asked for recommends to be > installed and were using a frontend that > understood them) > 13:23:11 <Q_> dondelelcaro: Oh, right. > 13:23:48 <dondelelcaro> although, I think the right solution is for > apt-get, aptitude et al. to notice when the > recommends have changed and suggest that they > be installed when that's the case > 13:24:05 <dondelelcaro> but that's clearly much more complicated > 13:24:21 <peterS> also, I expect aptitude to deal more gracefully with > a missing gnupg than with a missing archive keyring. > the latter might just mean you trust _other_ > repositories instead. the former means you have no > way of checking and it shouldn't whine. > > > Don Armstrong > > -- > "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember > when you are old." > -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p413) > > http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu > -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
