Hi,
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> Well, I haven't seen a patch to modify dinstall and I haven't
Jason> seen a patch to modify dselect+apt either - so there is
Jason> definately lots of work to still be done by someone.
You are right. What is out there
On 7 Aug 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think you misunderstand. "without any modification to any
> existing packages, and hence policy.". As I read it, that means that
> no packages need be modified, and thus this is not policy. And such is
> the case.
That's kinda what I thought
Hi,
>>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> The discussion in the bug report seems to have reached the conclusion
>> that this can be handled simply by modifications to dinstall and apt
>> (or other dselect methods as applicab
Hi,
>>"Jim" == Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> If this is to be done by adding to how packages are made, it
Jim> definitely belongs in policy, because ALL packages would then have to
Jim> adhere to it. But if there is a way to offer disk usage information
Jim> about packages withou
>
> Date:Fri, 06 Aug 1999 19:18:32 MDT
> To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
> cc: Debian Policy List
> From:Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Bug#37999: du -S'ing the archive (was: Re: weekly policy summary)
>
> On S
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The discussion in the bug report seems to have reached the conclusion
> that this can be handled simply by modifications to dinstall and apt
> (or other dselect methods as applicable): that is, to have dinstall
> generate a DiskUsage.gz file along with
Anthony Towns wrote:
> As such, perhaps this should be reassigned as a wishlist bug against
> ftp.debian.org and apt?
Perhaps, but it is not likely to be implemented unless someone supplies
patches.
Richard Braakman
> A pre-install required space checking mechanism for Debian packages
> (#37999)
> * Old.
> * Proposed on 19 May 1999 by Manoj Srivastava.
> * The idea is to enable tools like apt to check if a set of packages
> will fit on a disk, taking various partitions into account. This
> will r
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