On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:06:41AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:42:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > (Cc'ed to debian-boot)
> > tasksel in sid supports a "Task:" header for packages so we can be a
> > little more flexible than having every task- depend on everythig in it.
> Can I make a suggestion? This sounds really good in general, but the
> one headache you've identified is the necessity to set up the Task
> fields in lots of packages and the consequent maintenance of this data.
I'm thinking it'll probably be best if a list of which packages are
in which tasks is maintained as part of boot-floppies CVS, and that
dak/dinstall updates the Task: fields based on that.
> Would it not be much easier for the task packages _themselves_ to
> contain Task: fields, instead of the individual packages, which would
> function like weak Recommends: fields:
Not really. The code's already written to do things the other way around,
and the main point of "Task:" fields being in the package is so that
packages can be removed from the archive without breaking any tasks they
might be a part of.
> In this way, the dependency information remains in the
> domain of the task-* package maintainers, but has the desired
> function.
It'd be possible to do this, too (either informally by saying "only
task package maintainers should mess with this part of CVS" or by making
dak/dinstall look at the actual contents of the latest task- packages).
I suspect using CVS'll be easier and at least as good though.
Cheers,
aj
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