Re: console-tools in base
Matt Porter <mporter@eng.mcd.mot.com> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:46:31AM +0200, dirson@debian.org wrote:
> > Matt Porter writes:
>>> These packages break during configuration on a serial console so
>>> we don't want them to be "required" on all systems. The
>>> "required" priority makes them get autoselected in dselect after
>>> the system is installed (and they have already been removed by the
>>> installer which knows it is on sercon and can't make use of
>>> consolee-*).
> > Ah, I get it. Sorry.
> > So it appears that the notion of priority depends on the profile ? ...
> If you mean that it priority depends on a headed/non-headed machine
> profile, then yes. However, if making it optional doesn't affect
> operation of headed machines than that seems like the easy route to
> fixing this. It also seems the most appropriate considering that
> console-tools isn't really required on _all_ Debian boxes any more.
Wouldn't it be best to somehow enable console-tools postinst to detect
that we're using a serial console and suppress it's operation in that
case? Sure, the pkg might not be really necessary, but that seems
like the best solution to me...
> A long term fix would be to add support for package priorities to be
> dynamic based on the type or profile of the system...That's a little ugly,
> IMHO.
Ew!
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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