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Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts



On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> > the script would probably not be necessary if dpkg (or any of the dpkg
> > methods - ftp, mountable, etc) used manoj's pkg-order to sort packages
> > into dependancy order. both ftp and mountable could be modified to do
> > this. the default mounted method probably couldn't easily because it
> > just does a simple recursive 'dpkg -iGROEB'
> 
> Is there any where we can wedge in an upgraded libc5 dpkg?

AFAIK, there is no way to guarantee that users will have a new dpkg,
and what's more the maintainers of it seem to have taken a vacation in
the Bermuda Triangle, so we will probably have to wait for any
substantive changes (although non maintainer releases are slowly
taking place, I guess:-)

-- 
David Welton                          http://www.efn.org/~davidw 

	Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org


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