On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:01:29PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > If all the udebs that you might ever want are already unpacked, you only
> > need to write to the debconf database (the answers to any questions need
> > to be stored for backtracking), the udpkg database (so you
Anthony Towns wrote:
> (Some comments, take them how you like)
It's more or less what I've been thinking about.
> main-menu has (aiui) a list of all .udebs installed. The .udebs start
> off unpacked but not configured in general, they only get configured
> when the user selects a menu item, and
Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:39:23PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Not as easy as it should be, i thought another goal was going to be
> > elimination of base.tar.gz, but we arent allowed to use normal debs to
> > build the base,
>
> I thought this too, but it's wrong. b
Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:55:59PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> (Some comments, take them how you like)
>
> > We need a retreiver controller, but it does *not* need to look like apt.
> > I'm mostly concerned that we don't know how the retreiver controller is
> > supposed
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:39:23PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Not as easy as it should be, i thought another goal was going to be
> elimination of base.tar.gz, but we arent allowed to use normal debs to
> build the base,
I thought this too, but it's wrong. base.tgz is made up from real debs,
.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:55:59PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
(Some comments, take them how you like)
> We need a retreiver controller, but it does *not* need to look like apt.
> I'm mostly concerned that we don't know how the retreiver controller is
> supposed to work. Ok, it can download debs and
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > The way i see it, a key feature of the new installer is that packaging
> > is much more tightly integrated.
> >
> > There are really 3 levels of abstraction for package managment(ignoring
> > debconf), dpkg-deb, dpkg, and apt-get.
>
> My view is that
Glenn McGrath wrote:
> The way i see it, a key feature of the new installer is that packaging
> is much more tightly integrated.
>
> There are really 3 levels of abstraction for package managment(ignoring
> debconf), dpkg-deb, dpkg, and apt-get.
My view is that these three levels are essentially
Randolph Chung wrote:
>
> > Ive been working on a uapt-get.
> >
> > Currently status is that it can process //etc/apt/source.list and fetch
> > the Packages.gz and Source.gz files by calling wget, then to merge the
> > package files i am calling "dpkg --merge-avail " to
> > generate a correct //v
> Ive been working on a uapt-get.
>
> Currently status is that it can process //etc/apt/source.list and fetch
> the Packages.gz and Source.gz files by calling wget, then to merge the
> package files i am calling "dpkg --merge-avail " to
> generate a correct //var/lib/dpkg/available file.
Glenn,
Ive been working on a uapt-get.
Currently status is that it can process //etc/apt/source.list and fetch
the Packages.gz and Source.gz files by calling wget, then to merge the
package files i am calling "dpkg --merge-avail " to
generate a correct //var/lib/dpkg/available file.
To do the equivvale
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