On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:14 +1300, Michael Hope wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Guilherme Salgado
> <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > In lmc we already have some code which checks if a given utility is
> > present and if not, install (via apt-get) a package which provides that.
> 
> (I don't like that - am I prompted first?  A script shouldn't be
> allowed to install packages on my machine)

Right now it may install stuff automatically, but we plan to have it do
so only with the user's consent:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools/+bug/704029

> 
> > We could extend it to check for a specific version and try to install a
> > version greater or equal that (can we tell apt-get to install only if it
> > finds a package whose version is greater than X?).
> 
> I ran into the same CP15 problem a few days ago and was left with a
> l-m-c that was stuck waiting for QEMU.  It wasn't obvious what to do
> next.  I like the idea of an explicit version check but you will need
> to tie the l-m-c, qemu, and hwpack versions together.
> 
> -- Michael

-- 
Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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