Martin Oldfield wrote:
> Joey> The proposal is that would use /emacs19/ for stuff local to
> Joey> it, as well as /news-reader/ and /mail-reader/ for stuff
> Joey> that.is shared with other news and mail readers.
>
> So in what sense is that a hierarchy ?
That only describes the root
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Martin Oldfield wrote:
>> I think there are problems with a hierarchy, exemplified by
>> emacs which contains both a newsreader and a mail program. I
>> suggest that this implies the hierarchy either needs to provide
>
Martin Oldfield wrote:
> I think there are problems with a hierarchy, exemplified by emacs
> which contains both a newsreader and a mail program. I suggest that
> this implies the hierarchy either needs to provide multiple
> inheritance, or is replaced by a simple list of the bits of the space
> wh
> "W" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
--> snip <--
W> 1. The configuration space All configuration information is
W>stored in what I
W> call the configuration space. This is a database with a special
W> design which resembles to method we look at configurat
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> I think we should at least have a default priority.
I reached the same idea, and added it back to the text I keep at home.
I also changed the INPUT command to remove the priority-parameter and
added an UPDATE-command to change the priority (or other aspects) of a
vari
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> Can't we just use postinst scripts for this? Just keep track of what package
> owns which variables, and when a variable in apackage changes, re-run the
> postint (which will presumably act on the change).
We could, but that's just a trivial implementation of a trigge
> Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was going to comment that this screams SNMP/MIB to me, until
> > I noticed that you mentioned this later on. Without leaping to
> > implementation ahead of design, wouldn't explicitly using an SNMP
> > approach reduce the work involved here (eg no n
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was going to comment that this screams SNMP/MIB to me, until
> I noticed that you mentioned this later on. Without leaping to
> implementation ahead of design, wouldn't explicitly using an SNMP
> approach reduce the work involved here (eg no need to re-
> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wichert> 1. The configuration space All configuration information
Wichert> is stored in what I call the configuration space. This is
Wichert> a database with a special design which resembles to
Wichert> method we look a
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > I would think something needs to export the new value into
> > /etc/news/servers. Since it is not possible to reconfigure running news
> > servers anyway.
>
> I don't really care what changes waht file at, I'm more interested in the
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > 4. How do the configmodule and the frontend interact?
> > Of course the configmodule and the frontend must exchange data to do their
> > work. We do this in a very simple manor: dpkg starts both the configmodule
> > and the frontend, and connect the stdin/stdout from the
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> * all proposals for a file with the variable list share 1 thing: the priority
> of a variable is given in this list. I don't think that is reasonable
> though:
> we can't always know if a variable is important until we know the
> conditions.
> For example: if you c
Previously Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> I would think something needs to export the new value into
> /etc/news/servers. Since it is not possible to reconfigure running news
> servers anyway.
I don't really care what changes waht file at, I'm more interested in the
design that makes this possible. Tri
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, unless we give each variable a default-priority and make it
> possible for the script to change it.
Ok.
> That's not what I meant. If someone uses SNMP to change (for example)
> to change the NNTP-server we should use, something needs to act upon
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 03:42:09PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> That's not what I meant. If someone uses SNMP to change (for example)
> to change the NNTP-server we should use, something needs to act upon
> that change to reconfigure all newsreaders to use that new host.
I would think somethin
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I continue to advocate that this creates the wrong sort of 'UI experiance'
> for the user. They are forced to run each script in some arbitary
> sequence and each package must provide such a script even if they only
> need some trivial manipulations. We need to
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> the preinst, and before the package is unpacked! Unless pre-depends are
> used, this will mean that the module can only assume the base-system is
> installed.
No, it can be called before the package is unpacked, pre-depends mean
-NOTHING- it can only
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