Re: Bug#17922: pkg-order: the mother of all wishlists
David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> wrote:
> We can do nothing about dpkg, as people will be using their older
> dpkg's to upgrade. We could fix all the bugs and add tons of
> features, but for upgrades, they would do us no good.
If you try to install hamm with the current dpkg, nothing happens.
If we could provide an upgraded version of dpkg which would
install on a bo system, it would install without a problem.
The only trick comes with trying to provide two dpkg upgrades
in hamm.
> This is kind of why it might be nice to have a catch-all package or
> script or something that could be run before any upgrades. We are
> faced with the fact that our packaging system is not adequate to the
> task at hand. Maybe changes made to it in the future will make it more
> robust? Maybe, but nothwithstanding the fact that it is ugly and sort
> of a hack, some sort of catch-all script might be a good thing not to
> depend on, but to have available should we encounter another situation
> like this one.
The problem with a catch-all script is just as serious as the problem
with dpkg -- it doesn't interact well with the current implementation
of dpkg.
--
Raul
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