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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks |
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Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:14:45 +0100 |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:46:27PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Andrew> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:22:15PM +0900, Stephen
> Andrew> J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> >> Personally, I would set it to 'ask (or even 'show-me-first),
> >> never t. I have enough experience with
> >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst to wish I could turn that off,
> >> too, but I can't.
>
> Andrew> dpkg --extract
>
> Bzzt. I'm talking about "friendly fire", in the uberdpkg stuff (I use
> aptitude, but it would affect dselect et al too, I suppose), like the
> persistent breakage in apache-common. I don't mind if things fail at
Mwahaha. apacheconfig is loathed and detested by everybody, I
think. I'm told the one for apache2 is significantly less broken.
> the command line; it's just really annoying to have the same script
> fail several times in one session because it repeatedly tries to
> configure.
Ah, the problem here is that apt is a moronic and horribly broken pile
of code. We know this, even if far too many users don't :)
(aptitude inherits the braindamage and then adds some of its own;
dselect just calls "apt-get dselect-upgrade" at present, which is no
better)
You don't want to know what happens when it *really* goes wrong.
Someday it'll get fixed or replaced. However, those who have a fair
understanding of the problem and possible solutions are also aware of
a small list of other stuff that would be nice to have *first*, so
it'll probably take a while.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch hooks, Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2003/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/01
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Miles Bader, 2003/10/02
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Tom Lord, 2003/10/02
- [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/02
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/04
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/04
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/05