[369] in athena10
Re: Adding software "to the release"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 4 20:13:03 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:12:18 -0400
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 19:11 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> What is a good way to test for this? Run apt-get install and see if
> it asks any questions? How can I best simulate an unattended install
> to determine whether a package sucks or not?
The vast majority of packages will be fine. If you notice it asking
questions at install time then it's probably still fine, but needs
investigation to make sure it's using the proper interfaces and does
something sane with no input.
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive will simulate an unattended install or
update.
> Is it disk space or network traffic that's the issue?
Mostly network traffic and install time. If we pile 100GB of software
into the release then it will take hours to install a machine. texlive
is a huge offender here because it has a zillion font packages runs
mktexlsr for every one, but tex is too important to lose.
