Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

[<danielt@digi.com>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Sergio Brandano wrote:

> 
>  I am now on an Intel platform, and my dpkg says:
> 
> >Package: netbase
> >Priority: standard
> >Section: base
> >Installed-Size: 1069
> >Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
> >Architecture: i386
> >Version: 3.16-7
> >Replaces: netstd (<< 3.00)
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Depends: tcpd, libc6 (>= 2.1)
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Suggests: cpp, debconf
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Conflicts: xinetd (<= 2.2.1-8), debconf (<< 0.2.34)
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/netbase_3.16-7.deb
> >Size: 503568
> >MD5sum: 4f694d71f17a771d106d751caf37078c
> >Description: Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
> > In order to make use of the network you need a few tools to
> > configure it. This package contains all the necessary tools
> > to configure the networking interfaces, to setup the routing
> > tables and to start other services using the inetd server.
> 
>  Why is that, generally speaking, powerpc and intel packages have
>  different dependencies?
>
I would say that this is version skid then, Intel had the dependency
problem for a couple of weeks.

Obviously PPC netbase is older than PPC netstd (and Intel netbase).
Once the version skid resolves the problem should therefore clear up. 

-- 
Daniel Taylor      Senior Test Engineer     Digi International
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