Re: Proposed package updates

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:39:02AM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> 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:
> ----------------
> 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?)

That should be cool as long as we do just the RSA key, and let the user
perform DSA generation later on.

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

I didn't notice it missing, but I haven't been using 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).

Yeah, good call.

> 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.

I'll take a look.

> 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:

[snip]

Looks good.

> 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.

We need to have better kernel dependency handling on this package. The one
in currently the tree (1.0) provides a kernel module for 2.4.3-rmk1-np2,
while kernel-modules-2.4.3-rmk2-np1_ipkg2 provides one as well.

What are the chances of getting the provides code working? It'd be
nice to have stowaway depend on a provides for ``stowaway-kernel-module''
(or somesuch), and have stowaway-modules-2.4.3-rmk2-np1_ipkg2 provide
said ``provides''.

> 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:
> ---------
> 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)

Nod. A vim build that doesn't depend on libgpm would also be cool, seeing
as libncurses is already available.

> diff_2.7-24 (this is handy for the "overwrite conffile?" prompt in
> ipkg)

Yup.

Alexander
Received on Fri May 11 2001 - 02:09:17 EDT