On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:54:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Remember: the point of tasks is to make the initial install simpler,
> so that people can get started on Debian without having to wade through
> dselect.
>
> So it's not a problem if *nothing* other than tasksel can handle
> install
Hallo, willkommenm auf der Liste.
a) Kernel 2.4.x braucht die neue version der Modutils, die wiederum die neue
libc6 will. Potato funktioniert aus diesem grunde nicht mit 2.4.x kernel
(dist-upgrade auf woody loest das problem. Wenn es nurt um einfachere USB
funktionen geht, gibt es die auch in 2
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:32:10PM -0400, Sam Hartman
Anthony> wrote:
>> So, I think that support in tools besides tasksel is critical
>> to this policy proposal being useful. I don't like the idea of
>> h
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:55:48AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anthony> Remember: the point of tasks is to make the initial
> Anthony> install simpler, so that people can get started on Debian
> Anthony> without having to w
> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Yes, that was the original point of tasks. However, tasks are
>> also used today by people who want to get a set of software
>> installed after the initial install. [...]
>> Yet I understand we have finite time. Wo
I got board one weekend and have done this in a way for
debian-linux-i386 and it works quite well. I had initially done a
single prep/build environment but it got too messy. The separation of
phases helped keep the complexity of both systems down. Phase I is a
good rescue environment and remain
Anthony Towns wrote:
> You can always run tasksel, select the task, and go "Ok", instead of using
> "apt-get install ..." though. Making "tasksel install server-dns" just go
> ahead and install the task, bypassing the UI, would be fairly simple too.
Another option would be to add real reverse dep
Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Would it not be much easier for the task packages _themselves_ to
> > contain Task: fields, instead of the individual packages, which would
> > function like weak Recommends: fields:
>
> Not really. The code's already written to do things the other way around,
> and the
Anthony Towns wrote:
> So, here's the deal. We need to get a proper policy for tasks fairly soon.
Amen.
> tasksel in sid supports a "Task:" header for packages so we can be a
> little more flexible than having every task- depend on everythig in it.
> This was discussed on -devel just after potat
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:19:20PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anthony> You
> Anthony> check the code out from CVS, or do an apt-get source, you
> Anthony> write the code, and you send it to Randolph. It doesn't
> Antho
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:05:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I don't recall a discussion of or decision on using overrides files.
Well, uh, you were in it...
"Overrides files" may not be quite the most accurate way of expressing it.
Certainly, I don't mean overrides files that ftpmaster takes ca
Repository: debian-installer/tools/ddetect/debian
who:dwhedon
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Anthony Towns wrote:
> > of re-overloading the package name. I think all those names are very, very
> > ugly. Wouldn't this be nicer --
> > Package: task-desktop
> > Tasksel-Section: user
> > Package: task-web-server
> > Tasksel-Section: servers
>
> Well, I mentioned somewhere having a separate s
Repository: base-config/debian
who:joeyh
time: Tue May 8 13:34:09 PDT 2001
Log Message:
* Reworded the "simple, advanced" question, adding a third option
to not install anything more. All translations need to be updated..
* Removed PERL_BADLANG hack. If the boot floppi
Repository: base-config
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* Removed PERL_BADLANG hack. If the boot floppies are
package: boot-floppies
version: CVS-8-may-2001
Trying to build boot-floppies on parisc/hppa (so take this with a grain
of salt), documentation/Makefile depends on debiandoc.decl which used
to be delivered by debiandoc-sgml (e.g., version 1.1.44) but which is
no longer available (checked 1.1.46 a
Repository: debian-installer/tools/niccfg
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time: Tue May 8 17:37:43 PDT 2001
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This tools isn't necessary anymore.
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:05:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I don't recall a discussion of or decision on using overrides files.
>
> Well, uh, you were in it...
>
> "Overrides files" may not be quite the most accurate way of expressing it.
> Certai
Hi, This is probably a newbie question, but I've found a few bugs and I dont know
how/where to post them, if someone could show me how, I'd be much obliged
thanks-
Andrew
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It occurs to me that what AJ's trying to do and its results can perhaps be
restated as follows (with apologies to AJ -- you have the best of
intentions):
* Move control of what packages a task includes out of the hands of the
creator of the task, and into the hands of people who have commits to
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:34:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> * Move control of what packages a task includes out of the hands of the
> creator of the task, and into the hands of people who have commits to
> some cvs repository somewhere[1].
Like boot-floppies CVS which every developer and a f
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Or moving them into the task package themselves, but not in the control
> record? Or shall we just forget I suggested that originally.
Well, I had.
That's a reasonable alternative. Oh, except, I seem to remember you wanted
to use some special-purpose field for it, when we
> Hi, This is probably a newbie question, but I've found a few bugs and I
> dont know how/where to post them, if someone could show me how, I'd be much
obliged
>
> thanks-
> Andrew
>
Take a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=boot-floppies&archive=no
to be sure your bugs
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:04:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Or moving them into the task package themselves, but not in the control
> > record? Or shall we just forget I suggested that originally.
> Well, I had.
Well, it's possible I wasn't explicit enough. What I said
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