[917] in athena10
Re: Random Comments on the Installer/debathena-login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Jan 22 19:42:32 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:41:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Xavid wrote:
> 1. It would be nice if there was a version of debathena-login that didn't
> pull in x11. I guess that would require making new versions of a bunch of
> the metapackages.
debathena-login isn't supposed to require X11 (debathena-workstation is
supposed to have all the X-related dependencies). It certainly doesn't on
my Debian sid test machine with debathena-standard installed and
xserver-xorg not installed (see below). What distro did you run into this
problem with?
> 2. We should probably change the installer script so that it doesn't claim it
> succeeded if the user says "no" to one of the aptitude commands.
That may be tricky; it currently works by inspecting aptitude's exit
status, which is less meaningful than I would like. I guess we can
explicitly check whether the packages they asked for are installed
afterwards...
-Tim Abbott
tabbott:~# aptitude install debathena-login
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debathena-athinfod{a} debathena-gconf2-config{a}
debathena-gconfd-2-wrapper{a} debathena-login
debathena-moira-passwd-config{a} debathena-nsswitch-config{a}
debathena-pam-config{a} debathena-ssh-server-config{a} libnss-afspag{a}
libnss-nonlocal{a} libpam-athena-locker{a}
libpam-debathena-home-type{a} libpam-krb5{a} libpam-krb524{a}
libpam-mktemp{a}
0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 200 not upgraded.
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