On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > * (Re)mounting is disabled. > > > * immutable-append-only are enforced by the kernel (i.e. you can't chmod > > > them away). > > Does this mean that you have to boot to a different kernel to do software > > upgrades? > > yes.
[snip] > > The base Debian doesn't have "a dozen languages" on it. I thought we were > > talking about needing Perl on a base Debian system? Perl is one language. > > Java support is truly optional. > > yes we're only talking about perl. [snip] > Yes. But dpkg depends on perl for its backends so you'll be crippled. An > important advantage debian has over other distributions is the > package-system. So you don't want your users (that is if you have any) to run perl scripts? Well why didn't you say so: "chmod go-x /usr/bin/perl". This won't break dpkg, and since the system is down during upgrades (on a different kernel), there's no race condition. Or am I missing something? Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
