Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:18:04AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I'm coming to this late. It sounds like dpkg has changed its behaviour > > several times recently. Please can you summarise dpkg's current and > > proposed use of fsync() vs sync(), an

Re: The trigger in your Debian packages

2011-06-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1/ If your package uses the "interest" directive in the triggers files, > is it important that the "triggering" packages that activate your triggers > be considered as not configured (and thus not satisfying dependencies) > until th

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:13:20PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:19:17 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Well, it does mean that you might be lacking important information > > because the other changelog wouldn't be present on the system. > > While the implicit Replaces seems

Re: Bug#815969: unable to delete old directory '/etc/iceweasel/profile/chrome': Directory not empty

2016-02-25 Thread Mike Hommey
reassign 815969 dpkg thanks dpkg maintainers: See discussion in bug 809386. Mike On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:22:46PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 46.0~a2+20160217064514-1 > Severity: minor > > I see > > Unpacking iceweasel (46.0~a2+20160217064514-1) over > (45

Re: Bug#817908: iceweasel: leaves cruft in /etc/iceweasel/ on upgrade

2016-03-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 02:05:17PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 45.0esr-1 > Severity: normal > > > After upgrading to 45.0esr-1 (ie, the big rename to Firefox), the following > unowned files are left: > /etc/iceweasel/ > /etc/iceweasel/pref > /etc/iceweasel/pref/ice

Re: Bug#815969: unable to delete old directory '/etc/iceweasel/profile/chrome': Directory not empty

2016-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:52:40PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > reassign 815969 dpkg > thanks > > dpkg maintainers: See discussion in bug 809386. So, here is my take at what's going wrong here: dpkg-maintscript-helper, which is run during preinst per debhelper, is called with

Re: Bug#817908: iceweasel: leaves cruft in /etc/iceweasel/ on upgrade

2016-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:25:17PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > This all makes no sense. First, it worked when I tried before uploading, > but it doesn't work anymore. Second, these dpkg-query messages make no > sense, and I don't know where they are coming from. Third, just

Re: Bug#817908: iceweasel: leaves cruft in /etc/iceweasel/ on upgrade

2016-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 08:43:04AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:25:17PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > This all makes no sense. First, it worked when I tried before uploading, > > but it doesn't work anymore. Second, these dpkg-query messages make no &g

Re: Bug#817908: iceweasel: leaves cruft in /etc/iceweasel/ on upgrade

2016-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 09:57:13AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Aaaand, it doesn't work either... > > It still says: > > Preparing to unpack .../iceweasel_45.0esr-2_all.deb ... > D02: trigproc_activate_packageprocessing pkg=iceweasel:amd64 > D000200: oldconffset

Re: Bug#817908: iceweasel: leaves cruft in /etc/iceweasel/ on upgrade

2016-03-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:24:54AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 11:39:27 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > M it looks like adding version and package information to the > > rm_conffile command fixes it. > > Ah, glad you figured this out!

Re: Suggesting new method to handle dpkg diversions

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:20:47AM -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [keeping debian-devel CC, this seems to still be relevant] > > [Goswin von Brederlow] > > What if each package could list all its current diversions in > > DEBIAN/diverions (i.e. in the control.tar.gz)? Upon

Re: Freeze exception for dpkg 1.14.18

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:21:49AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > > > Here's what I would like to suggest as acceptable for lenny (and thus > > > 1.14.19): > > > > Freeze guidelines are not really up to discussion and I don't like that > > maintainers of ke

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:05:53PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and > alternatives handling"): > > Declarative diversions are a much-needed enhancement to dpkg; there are > > cases one cannot deal with on upgrade without rm'ing one's own

Re: dpkg 1.15.6 is slow as hell

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Other possibility would be to use the loop afterwards to reopen all > installed files and call fsync() on them. The disadvantage of sync() is > obviously when unrelated disk activity happens in parallel to dpkg, it > will have to wait more due to this.

Re: tdpkg cache wrapper to dpkg

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:55:19PM +0100, Luca Bruno wrote: > Hello, > it's since 2007 that cache for dpkg has been proposed but maintainers never > replied. For this reason I've written a shared library libtdpkg.so to wrap > open/fstat/rename/unlink calls from dpkg for .list files in order to cach

Bug#21236: Upgrading severity

2004-10-25 Thread Mike Hommey
severity 21236 grave thanks Justification for severity upgrade: creates data loss. I ran into this bug twice in one or two months, that is more than I can bear. Yes I happen to have .orig directories containing stuff (often the previous debian release to make a patch to sent to the BTS). Yes, I sh