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Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks



Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:

> Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> 
> > Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:45:37AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > > > Do I have to add sysvinit to the package list, or what's the problem?
> > > 
> > > The problem was already being discussed starting at
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0107/msg00603.html. The solution
> > > is too simle: you just have to download some packages manually, i.e.
> > > e2fsprogs, which isn't needed for the bootdisk (and won't be
> > > unpacked). You'll need to do this until apt-get gets a switch for
> > > telling it: "Hey, just download the packages without checking deps!
> > > I want it! I know what I'm doing!" :-)
> > 
> > Hm, this sucks. Maybe I'll try to implement the wget idea mentioned in
> > that thread.
> 
> Well, can someone explain why it works fine for every machine I build
> on?

Including Alphas?

        Falk



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