Re: autoup.sh & considerations on bail-out scripts
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> yes, but if you use dselect to install them then you run into exactly
> the problems we're trying to avoid.
>
> somehow, the updated stuff has to be installed before the user runs
> dselect. that means either autoup.sh or something very similar. if we're
> going to install dpkg-ftp and dpkg-mountable in a script, we may as well
> do libc6, dpkg, perl as well to make for a smoother upgrade.
>
> we also need to remove all the libc5 based -dev, -dbg, and -pic
> packages...and other stuff like libpthread0 and timezone.
>
> the script can (and does!) do whatever is necessary to give dselect a
> known safe environment to work in.
To remove timezone (at least from a rex system), autoup.sh must
use a --force-remove-essential command. dselect can't handle this,
and probably never will be able to. autoup.sh needs polishing and
documentation, but, as Craig says, we won't be able to get away from
it or something very similar.
Bob
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