[pkg-fso-maint] An eventful install.sh

[Steven De Herdt]

G'day,

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>wrote:

> Dear Steven,
>
> I have added your patch and just nibbled at a few corners. For instance
> the internal variable names are prepended with "internal_" now. I thank
> you for indicating "dpkg -s" to me - have not been aware of it.
>
I hope it was useful, if it wasn't at least we learned something.

I admit to be not overly much interested. In my humble opinion the bug
> is more with the tool the utters all the redundant warnings than with us
> poor souls using it.
>
> The tasks are meant to address the individuals' diverse foci of
> interest. A task "luxury" would not be sufficiently expressive and ...
> well ... I did not suffer that much about it so far (puh!)
>
Maybe I could implement a "featureful" task, but I see it doesn't have top
priority.

It look all fine to me. Concerning the DELENDA, er, internal_delenda, I
> wished we would kind of determine the packages to delete when we know if
> we are using (c)?debootstrap ..... or find some other more deterministic
> approach. Or some flag to dpkg that allows the specification of
> non-existing packages for removal? Well, since your code certainly fixes
> something, I am happy for how it is for the moment.
>
That would be cleaner, but "if it ain't broken, don't fix it"?


>  > As for the erratic SD card, I suppose I'll hunt for a solution
> separately.
> > It seems to be a rather complex matter.
>
> Please just something smallish as a start.

What I meant is that I'd solve my particular problem.  If I have something
to contribute, the Openmoko wiki seems like the right place, but I could let
you know.

> P.S.: If this silly humour in mail or patch are bothersome or impertinent
> I
> > do apologise.
>
> Gosh. I have not even spotted it. I presume, one just needs it for what
> we are doing here.
>
It's one of those (intenal_)delenda, and it's for sure not a Debian
package...


> Cheers,
>
> Steffen
>

Have some cheers yourself,

Steven.
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