Bug#142199: debian-policy: packages should be allowed to depend on an X font
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:28:43PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:56:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > I consider that xfonts packages should be dinamically virtually
> > provided when they're installed in a remote host, somehow. But this
> > is a dpkg thing.
>
> And what if there's 50 X servers installed on 50 workstations, and one
> central installation of the app on a Bigass(tm) server? (A fairly
> common and sensible setup.) What if 8 of the workstations are running
> RedHat, 5 are running SuSE, 3 are Sparcstations running Solaris and 18
> are Windows + Xserver?
you can use FAI and do 34 debian installations ;)
no really, i think it's possible. here's my opinion if you're interested
> How is dpkg supposed to query these machines?
the workstations should contact the central server and send it a full
list of which xfonts have they installed (and possibly more useful info)
then a modified dpkg in the central server could listen for lists
of xfonts Provides:, with some autentification (maybe based in
trustable IP sources?). A particular xfont installed in a single
workstation should be enough, since it means that the administrator
will handle xfont installation
note that those workstations don't necessarily need to run debian,
a simple client utility that detects xfonts and periodicaly sends
a list to the server should be enough. If the clients are debianised,
that utility could install xfonts on server requests.
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Robert Millan
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