On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > e2fsprogs (>= 1.15-1) | e2fsprogs-bf (>= 1.15-1) not needed > Well, I thought about that as well, but if sysvinit had these > dependencies a user and/or apt could get the idea that installing > e2fsprogs-bf seems like a good idea which it is not (out of the > description of e2fsprogs-bf): > > | Don't attempt to install this package, it has no support for a > | couple of features you surely want. Anyway it should refuse to > | install. > > This could give raise to a bunch of bad bug reports... > > Anyway, it seems that the downloading of the packages needed for the > boot-floppies seems to be broken if there is no way of getting apt to > download package-files without checking. i never had any trouble with this, i used a woody chroot which is quite normal it has sysvinit and regular e2fsprogs (not -bf) installed. apt seems to have no trouble with this inside of boot-floppies build. are you sure your not trying to build on potato? or a very outdated testing/unstable? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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