Hello Am Dienstag, 5. September 2006 19:08 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote: > > Some scripts included in backports (like the ifdown stuff from > > wpasupplicant) use functions from /lib/lsb/init-functions that are > > not available in Sarge. The next hostapd backport (0.5.5) will also > > be affected: > > > > /etc/init.d/hostapd: line 38: log_daemon_msg: command not found > > /etc/init.d/hostapd: line 44: log_progress_msg: command not found > > > > Right now this does not affect the basic functionality of the > > backport, the only problem is that users will see the above error > > messages instead of: > > > > Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapd. > > > > What is the recommeded way of dealing with this? > > [...] > > Reporting a (probably serious) bug against the original package if it > does not have a versioned dependency on the required version of > lsb-base. > > lsb-base is not essential, if packages use it they must declare a > dependency. > > cu and- got bitten by this in exim4 myself -reas I looked up in which lsb version the missing functions were introduced and reported bugs against hostapd and wpasupplicant. Thanks for the advice. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html
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