Re: Bug#467650: debian-edu: Downloads things, does not clean up after itself.
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
There are a few problems with this:
- It's missing a build dependency on apt, which isn't part of
essential + build essential.
Good point. Need to be fixed.
Yes it should. IMHO the simplest solution would be to make
cdd-dev dependant from apt.
On the other hand - why isn't apt not part of essential?
- Since you download things, the sources aren't available for it,
so I don't see how you comply with the DFSG. (Or I have no
idea why you download things.)
The package check if there is net, and if there is net it download the
list of packages available from the debian repository of choice and
uses this information to filter the priority of the list of wanted
packages to generate tasksel tasks and meta packages (packages with
only dependencies). As the list of available packages differ over
time, as well as differ from architecture to architecture, the
generated package lists are supposed to reflect this. It is the
purpose of this package.
I fail to see the actual conflict with DSFG. Kurt, could you please
specify the point you have in mind that conflicts? I hope this is
not the point why you tagged the bug grave because I do not see a good
chance to change this.
- Since it's not put in the build dir, it doesn't get cleaned up.
This should be fixed too.
Well, if we would fix it we will have to refuse the option to profit from
this "cache" if you work offline. This is no big loss, but putting it
outside the build dir was intended for exactly the purpose to have it
not cleaned up. I admit that it is not really a clean solution. We
might think about reading an environment variable, say OFFLINE=yes
and keep the cache if this is set, while removeing it otherwise. This
should be done in cdd-dev package.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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