Bug#546723: apt-get fails to install the package, Synaptic does
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:12:39PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:32:42PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > Well, at least I would warn about that if a soffice.bin is running
> > in preinst. [...]
>
> I agree, but in which preinst? openoffice.org rules out for obvious reasons,
> -common and -core might be candidates, but still stuff get unpacked before
> -core when you upgrade. (Unless I'd make all other packages pre-depend on the
> *exact* -core so that -core's preinst is ran at the beginning,
> which is bad imho)
>
Isn't having -core pre-depending on a suitable verification package (say -check)
an option? It would have the advantage to avoid strict pre-dependency for
any package but for -core, which is a dependency for all others, AFAIK.
> > It could ask if it should stop or not (as the kernel does,
> > for instance).
>
> The kernel only is one package, though, that is easy :-)
>
> That would allow admin to kill current instances soon
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> Rene
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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