[253] in athena10
Re: OpenAFS modules metapackages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Fri Jun 20 11:02:56 2008
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: ghudson@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Evan Broder wrote:
> So...how clever is aptitude exactly? If all of the metapackages Provides:
> openafs-modules-meta and debathena-locker Depends: (or maybe Recommends:)
> openafs-modules-meta, is aptitude clever enough to resolve that Depends in a
> way that minimizes the number of packages that need to be installed?
Last I checked, the answer was "no" (this problem is how sometime this
Spring Debathena ended up installing a -386 kernel on people's machines,
causing their wireless to stop working the next time they rebooted).
This was with a package depending on openafs-modules2, which all the
openafs modules packages provide.
-Tim Abbott
