[kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de: Fwd: Re: [MBT] new ticket for pkg FHS "FHS"]

[Lukas Dobrek]

There is a sirious coplain about apt/poldek story. And I have to say
this guy is right he don't feel like lerning poldek and I think we should
not try to persiude him to do it if there is apt.

----- Forwarded message from Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de> -----

> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:12:41 +0200
> From: Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de>
> Subject: Fwd: Re: [MBT] new ticket for pkg FHS "FHS"
> To: £ukasz Dobrek <Lukasz.Dobrek at itp.uni-hannover.de>
> 
> Hello Lukasz !
> I filed a bug report yesterday and got the following reply. Does this
> mean I have to stop using apt ? I thought we could use apt and poldek
> parallel ? I would really like to stay at apt, at least for now, since
> I also maintain debian boxes and would not like to learn yet another
> tool. apt is a VERY IMPORTANT TOOL.
> 
> Could you check that ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>             Helge
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Tomasz Kloczko <kloczek at rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl> -----
> 
> > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:18:20 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Tomasz Kloczko <kloczek at rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl>
> > To: pld-devel-en at pld.org.pl
> > cc: kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de, mis <mis at pld.org.pl>, bugs <bugs at pld.org.pl>
> > Subject: Re: [MBT] new ticket for pkg FHS "FHS"
> > In-Reply-To: <RkhT.519 at bugs.pld.org.pl>
> > 
> > On 15 Jul 2002 bugs at pld.org.pl wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Date: 2002-07-15 16:23:03+02	Author:  (kreutzm) <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de> 
> > > Title:         FHS
> > > Ticket ID:     #273
> > > Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld.org.pl/?bug=273
> > > Package:       FHS-2.1-24
> > > Distribution:  PLD-Ra.main
> > > Category:      bug in rpm's scripts
> > > Current state: opened
> > > Text:
> > > 
> > > [root at zubi root]# apt-get install FHS
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > The following packages will be upgraded
> > >   FHS 
> > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> > > Need to get 0B/28.3kB of archives. After unpacking 209kB will be used.
> > > Executing RPM (-Uv)...
> > > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> > > installing package FHS-2.1-24 needs 2Kb on the /home filesystem
> > > Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (2)
> > > 
> > > This fails if no /home/users is present
> > 
> > We try slowly move from using apt to poldek as frontend on rpm for
> > managing packages simple because apt for rpm development condition is 
> > not good in last time and seems more than half year ago was stop.
> > This program seems need deep rework and noone want to perform this :>
> > 
> > So please look at poldek also .. which is not only my favorit frontend for
> > managing packahges :o) [1]
> > 
> > Above oesn't metter at all if poldek also will fail by do not perform
> > checking avalable free size/inodes before install/upgrade packages (this
> > can be performed even before downloading packages).
> > 
> > (I'm Cc: to Pawel Gajda poldek author) Pawel how it looks in poldek case ?
> > 
> > [1] looking on ftp statistics on main ftp server poldek seems now is more
> > than three times offen used than apt :)
> > 
> > kloczek
> > -- 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > *Ludzie nie maja problemów, tylko sobie sami je stwarzaja*
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Tomasz Kloczko, sys adm @zie.pg.gda.pl|*e-mail: kloczek at rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl*
> 
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