Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > If I am not mistaken, udpkg will issue a warning when it is running > for the first time, because the status file is missing. Here is a > patch to try to create the status file on the first run, and only > report an error if this failed. > > I wrote this patch a long time ago, but never found time to test it. > Sending it here to make sure it isn't lost. Hmm, my assumption was that this behavior was intentional and that you were intended to provide a status file (and the directory it goes in). Also, dpkg's behavior isn't much different. joey@dragon:~>mkdir -p /tmp/var/lib/dpkg joey@dragon:~>sudo dpkg --root /tmp -i ~/lib/debian/unstable/pdmenu_1.2.87_i386.deb dpkg: failed to open package info file `/tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory Isn't this just avoidance of bloat? -- see shy jo
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