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



Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 1. mountable does everything that cdrom, nfs, harddisk, and mounted
>    does and more. it is a general solution - if you can mount the file
>    system then dpkg-mountable can install from it.
> 
>    it has two drawbacks: (a) inability to handle pre-dependancies, and
>    (b) the bug which requires you to run Update again after any error.
>    Apart from these, it is in every way superior to the other similar
>    methods.  Both of these problems are fixable.

Know that Andy fixed problem (b) in the dpkg-mountable package that I
beta tested for him last week.  I don't know if he is currently
working on the pre-dependancy situation or not.

Kirk


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