Re: boot-floppies dselect acquisition methods
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:05:34 +0000, Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> said:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:58:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> Then where do ftp, http, and ??? come from?
> On boot-floppies 2.1.x only apt provides those. (On 2.0.x there was
> dpkg-ftp).
Oh, um, you mean that ftp and http were pulled...!
> ftp and http are not on the current (2.1.5) base system. May I add
> them (again)?
Geeze, I dunno. The rumor I heard was that ftp (from dftp, right?)
supports authenticating FTP proxies, and apt decidedly does not. In
which case that might be a candidate for being reinstated.
Does the http option have anything over apt?
Here's the list again, and remember, this is obviously out of date:
(doh! sorry)
> cdrom Install from a CD-ROM.
> * multi_cd Install from a CD-ROM set.
> nfs Install from an NFS server (not yet mounted).
> multi_nfs Install from an NFS server (using the CD-ROM set) (not yet m
ounted).
> harddisk Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted).
> mounted Install from a filesystem which is already mounted.
> multi_mount Install from a mounted partition with changing contents.
> mountable Install from a partition named in fstab
> floppy Install from a pile of floppy disks.
> ftp Install using ftp.
> http Install using http:, ftp:, and file: URLs.
> apt APT Acquisition [file,http,ftp]
Just to start us off again, here's my *guess* at what should be
removed, and why. By 'obsoleted' below I mean, provides no features
not already provided by another, more fully-featured alternative.
Removal candidates:
mounted (dpkg)
uses dpkg -iGROEB, suboptimal ordering, obsoleted by better methods,
namely, apt or multi_mount
harddisk (dpkg)
uses dpkg -iGROEB, suboptimal ordering, obsoleted by better methods,
namely, apt or multi_mount
cdrom (dpkg)
uses dpkg -iGROEB, suboptimal ordering, obsoleted by better methods,
namely, multi_cd or apt, we don't ship single CD-ROMS anymore
nfs (dpkg)
uses dpkg -iGROEB, suboptimal ordering, obsoleted by better methods,
namely, apt or multi_nfs, for the latter, consistency with multi_*
ftp (dpkg-ftp)
subobtimal ordering, claims to do proxy FTP, but! is broken, at least
for me:
Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/dftp.pm line 231,
<VARS> chunk 1 (#1)
Uncaught exception from user code:
FATAL at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/dftp.pm line 234, <VARS> chunk 1.
main::loadconfig('vars') called at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup.tty
line 173
main::main('/var/lib/dpkg', 'ftp', 'ftp') called at
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup.tty line 215
Edgy:
mountable (dpkg-mountable)
last updated 12 May 1998, tested? obsoleted by multi_mount?
Should probably keep:
http (dpkg-http)
maintainer says is obsolete in /usr/doc/dpkg-http/README.Debian:
Package installation is unordered, which can cause difficulty
with important system packages with predendencies. Package
ordering is available in APT (A Package Tool), which will
replace dpkg-http.
However, below:
HTTP Proxy firewalls are supported thanks to Greg Wooledge.
"Authorization:" and "Proxy-Authorization:" are both supported, and
are known to work on "ANS InterLock Proxy" and "InterLock/4.0" firewalls.
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