Re: dpkg non-non maintainer release
On 4 Sep 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 03.09.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980903175125.260B-100000@Wakko.ualberta.ca>:
>
> > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> > > e. Improvements to dselect's installation methods, many of which are
> > > quite suboptimal.
> >
> > I think someone already mentioned this, APT does a better job of these
> > ones:
> > mounted
> > ftp
> > http
> >
> > And it would be fairly simple to write a cover for
> > nfs
> > cdrom
> > harddisk
>
> Mountable has problems, but it seems to be the only one that does logging.
> Logging is sorely needed!
Edit /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install and put script in there someplace
in some manner that is both usefull and non-intrusive.
Jason
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