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Re: installation report



Michael Banck, le Sun 25 Oct 2009 11:20:20 +0100, a écrit :
> The outdated packages now got removed.  I am keeping unreleased pinned
> over unstable right now, because the last important package from
> debian-ports for a debootstrap is dhcp-client, which is an empty
> transitional package to dhcp3-client in sid and we really need the
> package from debian-ports for now until dhcp3 gets ported.

Couldn't only the dhcp package be pinned unreleased over unstable?

> > - i also changed /etc/crosshurd/packages/common and added initscripts
> >   and insserv, because util-linux now depends on initscripts which in
> >   turn complain if insserv isn't installed. since insserv isn't
> >   required, i also added a line to the native-isntall script rigth after
> >   the unpacking of the reuqired packages to do the same for insserv.
> 
> Thanks, I have changed crosshurd accordingly.

Does it mean crosshurd doesn't look at the package dependencies?

> >   haven't looked too closely at the dependencies around this (beacuse
> >   it's nauseating), but i am not sure if there isn't a serious bug there
> >   somewhere: initscripts calls insserv in its setup script, so it should
> >   pre-depend on it, and if it does depend on it, doesn't that make
> >   insserv required as well? is that really the way to go?
> 
> Not really sure either.

sysv-rc calls insserv in its postinst script, so a simple depend should
be enough.

Samuel


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