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Re: Openssh-client component not available? (was Bug#259017: IDE hard-drive not being detected)



On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:40:17PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 13:15, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's not meant for this purpose. openssh-client-udeb (if all the
> > dependencies are available as udebs now) is more what you want.
> 
> How is one supposed to load this udeb?

Well, it hasn't really been tested much yet, but ...

> I've just tried a netboot and selected unstable for download of installer 
> components, but there is no line for anything like openssh-client (or 
> -server) in the list of available optional components.

Hm. There seem to be five ways to get anna to select something for
installation:

  * declare Enhances: on something that's already installed (will
    install the package by default, or at least it's supposed to,
    although I'm not sure I believe the code);

  * be a kernel module udeb;

  * be priority standard or above (will install the package by default);

  * be queued by something else using anna-install (will install the
    package by default);

  * provide a menu item.

None of these exactly seem appropriate. Would anyone object if it became
priority standard? I guess the lowmem people would be very unhappy with
that.

It would be good if anna-install could be souped up so that you could
run it from the command line after anna runs the first time and have it
retrieve and install a package and any necessary dependencies. It
doesn't even seem necessarily too hard ...

In lieu of that, I guess I could add an Installer-Menu-Item: field so
that anna will offer it for retrieval in expert mode and an
isinstallable maintainer script which always fails so that main-menu
won't actually put it on the menu. Joey, how evil does that sound?

> What are the dependencies (I noticed libcrypto is required which is not 
> present by default...)?

libc6-udeb, libcrypto0.9.7-udeb, libnss-files-udeb, and zlib1g-udeb.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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