Bug#137570: boot-floppies: *fdisk* broken in installation manual
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:28:14PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-09
> Severity: normal
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html#s-partition-programs
>
> click on 'fdisk manual page' and you get :
> Not Found
> The requested URL /releases/testing/i386/man-fdisk was not found on this
> server.
>
> I think it wants to be pointing to :
> http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/fdisk.txt
>
> instead, which gives us something a bit better:
> ** man page not found **
>
>
> That message is created during the boot-floppies build if it fails to
> download the .deb and extract the manpage. Alas, I just did a build on
> my machine and the manual pages were found and created properly. I'm
> confused because I thought I personally fixed the '** man page not found
> **' problem months ago.
>
> Other archs (powerpc at least) have similar problems with the fdisk man
> pages.
Since we're getting close to releasing, there's another similar build problem
on powerpc. The BootX*.sit and BootVars*.sit files are not created properly
in the woody archive. They are placeholders, if you open them up they say they
are fakes.
The correct files are in the potato tree.
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*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> |
| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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