On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there are some failure modes we don't have enough
> > control over.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:41:51PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This is the only point during dpkg's operation where a failure of dpkg is
> catastrophic. IMHO essential
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> How about coming up with something better then?
The mechanism APT uses is that Essential packages implicitly make their
dependencies also Essential for installation order - this means things
like libc6 are unpacked and configured immediately.
IHMO this
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are some failure modes we don't have enough
> control over.
This is the only point during dpkg's operation where a failure of dpkg is
catastrophic. IMHO essential packages should make a 'best effort' to
ensure that they have the highe
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 02:12:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Finishing unpacking isn't exactly a dpkg abort, though. Maybe
> `This means the package must be functional even before it has been
> configured when upgrading and after any dpkg abort.' ?
Unfortunately, there are some failure modes w
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:06:47AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> Furthermore, it occurs to me that the problem isn't just essential
> packages. If libc6 fails to work during an upgrade, we're equally bad
> off, but libc6 isn't essential. So, the proposal is not only
> ambiguous and redundant, but
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 9 Dec 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
>
> > I'm a little bit afraid that this opens the door to endless debates
> > about what the "core functionality" of a package is. For example, I
> > would have considered the "core functionality" of the bash packag
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:37:44PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:24:37AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Personally I would increase the strength of the wording to be more like:
> > An essential package is one that can never stop working. This means any
> > dpkg abort
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