A while back Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hrm, actually I turn out not to have a choice.
>
> lilo depends on logrotate
> logrotate depends on mailx
> mailx depends on exim | m-t-a
>
> I don't think I can reasonably not include lilo. :)
I think this is fixed in unstable as of today. Lilo dropped the
l
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hrm, actually I turn out not to have a choice.
>
> lilo depends on logrotate
> logrotate depends on mailx
> mailx depends on exim | m-t-a
>
> I don't think I can reasonably not include lilo. :)
Gar. Both of the first 2 dependancies seem very shakey. And damned
annoying. I
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Would it make any sense to drop exim (and cron and at and mailx) from
> important to standard? If you'd go "what the fuck?!" about them being
> missing on a real system, does it make sense that you wouldn't go "what
> the fuck?!" when you found they were missing from your n
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:03:10PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:54:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > (I expect plenty of people will be picking other mailers, and
> > those in the know might be grumbling at debootstrap for insisting on
> > downloading a mailer they immed
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:54:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> (I expect plenty of people will be picking other mailers, and
> those in the know might be grumbling at debootstrap for insisting on
> downloading a mailer they immeditaly replace..)
Hrm, actually I turn out not to have a choice.
lilo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:54:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hm, this is really your call as the maintainer of debootstrap, but an
> alternative way to look at is it debootstrap could just be responsible
> for installing enough packages to let base-config set up a full base
> system.
Hrm.
Well,
Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Is there no way to have a package be priority important and skipped by
> > tasksel?
[ Meaning debootstrap not tasksel, but I think you figured that out. ]
> :-/
>
> I'd like to be able to automatically determine what to download and
> install from the Packages file as fa
Randolph Chung wrote:
> > Mailx does meet the criteria for important very well though.
> >
> > Is there no way to have a package be priority important and skipped by
> > tasksel?
Um, I meant to say by debootstrap. Ignore me. I think tasksel is doing
exactly the right thing.
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> Mailx does meet the criteria for important very well though.
>
> Is there no way to have a package be priority important and skipped by
> tasksel?
How about if we change the semantics of the -r and -i flags of tasksel
so that it only marks a package for install if it doesn't conflict with
a p
Anthony Towns wrote:
> It's priority important, and other important packages depend on it, in
> particular mailx and at. I guess all three of those could be dropped to
> standard reasonably. Maybe. ?
Mailx does meet the criteria for important very well though.
Is there no way to have a package b
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:38:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > man-db would be a good one, otherwise users never get the opertunity
> > to turn on caching.
>
> Man-db is another one that any sane use of tasksel or dselect will pull
> in automatically, so I don't think debo
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:48:48PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> I'm wondering why it was added to base. I understand it's
> priority standard and the default debian MTA, but...
It's priority important, and other important packages depend on it, in
particular mailx and at. I guess all three of
Ethan Benson wrote:
> man-db would be a good one, otherwise users never get the opertunity
> to turn on caching.
Man-db is another one that any sane use of tasksel or dselect will pull
in automatically, so I don't think debootstrap need bother with
downloading it.
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:52:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I'm trying to remember when exim got configured in potato installs. Was
> > > it even installed as part of the base system back then? Could someone
> > > with a te
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to remember when exim got configured in potato installs. Was
> > it even installed as part of the base system back then? Could someone
> > with a test machine do an install and check?
>
> Yes, it would stop and ask you
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> there was no MTA installed in the base system until now. i remember
> because i never had to --purge exim when installing postfix on new
> installs, unless i ran dselect and forgot to fix it there.
No, I think you're right. In fact,
http://http.us.deb
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 02:21:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Hmm. I think we should have base-config reconfigure some of the base
> packages, anyway. I'm not so sure about all of them. We already
> reconfigure some, like console-data and passwd.
man-db would be a good one, otherwise users neve
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to remember when exim got configured in potato installs. Was
> it even installed as part of the base system back then? Could someone
> with a test machine do an install and check?
Yes, it would stop and ask you on postinst, IIRC.
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.Adam
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Now, the problem. There does not appear to be any obvious time in
> > which the base packages are configured. For example, I am never
> > asked how to setup exim so that email works correctly. This needs
> > to be fixed before the release. Should we have base-config
>
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, the problem. There does not appear to be any obvious time in
> which the base packages are configured. For example, I am never
> asked how to setup exim so that email works correctly. This needs
> to be fixed before the release. Should we have bas
Howdy,
First, I was able to install using the 2.3.6 i386 compact
boot-floppies. The only non-standard thing I had to do was edit
the sources.list to refer to woody instead of stable. It looks
like this will be fixed once a new base-config propogates into
woody (and be even better with the next
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