Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train > > people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure > > this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. > > So why not "N"? That may leave the package, at wors

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train > > people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure > > this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. > > So why not "N"? That may leave the package, at wors

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bob Proulx wrote: > As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train > people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure > this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not "N"? That may leave the package, at worst, in a "I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bob Proulx wrote: > As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train > people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure > this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not "N"? That may leave the package, at worst, in a "I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its configuration > though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify viewpo

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its configuration > though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify viewpo

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: >> Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its >> > configuration though? >> >> Look at >> >> http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: > Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its > > configuration though? > > Look at > > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt > > , > | Packages must not modify othe

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: > >> This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >> >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >> >type of scenario. >> >> Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a p

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: >> Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its >> > configuration though? >> >> Look at >> >> http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030901 11:20]: > Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its > > configuration though? > > Look at > > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt > > , > | Packages must not modify othe

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: > >> This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >> >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >> >type of scenario. >> >> Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a p

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even "Depend" on a packag

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depen

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > sys

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even "Depend" on a pa

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script de

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are defi

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package > which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > systems, we want to have o

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends on the foobar inter

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > sys

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are defi

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package > which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > systems, we want to have o

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends on the foobar inter

backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)?" The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems, we want to have our own little package, that "configures" the auto

backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Winger
The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)?" The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems, we want to have our own little package, that "configures" the aut