Proposed package updates

Well, I just had a nice 4 hour plane ride with my laptop connected to
my iPAQ, (serial and wired ethernet), and I was able to do some
testing/hacking on familiar. I've updated the following packages but I
haven't installed them into the repository yet as some might need
dictatorial approval as they touch on some policy issues.

This first batch is probably worth doing, but it affects policy a bit
so look closely:
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ssh from 1:2.5.2p2-2 to 1:2.5.2p2-2-fam1 adds postinst for key
generation if the key file doesn't not exist (do we want this?)

task-mp3-player 0.0 <no version change> (was this package missing or
was it just my local copy that didn't have it?)

xbase-clients from 4.0.2-13 to 4.0.2-13-fam1 adds postinst to create
/usr/bin/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/bin, (someone had filed the
"/usr/bin/X11/xauth: no such file" bug against me).

The two questions I have are 1) How de we really want to handle
ssh-keygen generation? and 2) Adding postinst scripts like this will
trigger the pending mechanism. It should work now, (as of ipkg 0.5),
so try it out and let me know if you think this is a good approach to
take.

Here are several updates that are definitely worth doing, (I don't
anticipate objections here). I'm posting the old versions I was
working from in case anyone has actually updated anything in the
meantime:
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fstroke from 0.2 to 0.2-fam1 adds missing skin.xpm

ipkg from 0.3/0.4 to 0.5 (Lots of bug fixes... see the ChangeLog)

pcmcia-cs from 0.0 to 0.0-fam1 adds missing conffiles

rxvt from 1:2.6.3-8 to 1:2.6.3-8-fam1 adds missing rxvt binary
<blush>. It also adds a postinst script telling the user how to
reconfigure the rxvt fonts, (although I would like to automate this
instead -- ~/.Xdefaults is the wrong place for this setup)

util-linux from 2.11b-2 to 2.11b-2-fam1 removes false slang1
dependency (important since I may be adding a slang1 package)

stowaway-h3600 from 1.0 to 1.0-fam1 adds a postinst script which warns
the user that the package does not yet configure everything that it
should.

This third batch is a few random packages that I've added. Nothing
extremely useful here, just a few odd bits that I had lying around on
my laptop. I hope to make a slew of debian->ipkg conversions very soon
now:
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ae_962-30 (Not a great editor, but I needed better than iv on
                the plane and this was all I had in my Debian NFS
                partition)
slang1_1.4.4-1 (required by ae -- making ae not such a great choice)
diff_2.7-24 (this is handy for the "overwrite conffile?" prompt in
                ipkg)

I've got some more comments from my testing, but I'll drop them in a
separate mail.

-Carl
Received on Tue May 08 2001 - 22:40:22 EDT