Custom Query (1145 matches)

Reported by geofft, 13 years ago.

Lucid cluster machines seem to have used up 75% of /boot in the time since they were installed:

opus:~ geofft$ athinfo w20-575-30 df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/athena-root
                     234134408  12461768 209779292   6% /
/dev/sda1               233191    162536     58214  74% /boot

Alternatively, since GRUB 2 does LVM just fine, we could just not create a /boot partition. This is how I set up machines and I've never had a problem with it.

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

This is a separate issue from removing unwanted packages from debathena-thirdparty: there are a couple of cases in which our metapackages depend on one package and a couple of that package's dependencies, which can be simplified. -dev packages and their non-dev library partners are a good example of this. This should not be a change in practical function of the package.

There are also a couple of cases in which our metapackages depend on one package and a couple of that package's recommendations: for instance, we could replace (almost?) all of the boost packages in thirdparty-libraries with just libboost-dev. This would be a significant cleanup, but a slight functional change. It's worth considering if there are reasons to keep these packages as hard dependencies; one technical reason to do so is that recommendations are never resatisfied if they happen not to be satisfied when the package is first installed (see #373). See that ticket and also #372 for discussion of making everything in -thirdparty recommendations, which, if implementable, would make this option clearly okay.

Reported by tabbott, 15 years ago.

Unless we come up with a reason not to, we should be sure to stop setting VISUAL, term, and xresize when we adjust the system dotfiles (Unless we realize a good reason not to).