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Re: List of installation problems for 1.2



On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

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> On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> > 16. Base-files should Provide: base
> >     Was: Smartlist and possibly other programs as well, depend on base.
> > 	Fixed in the next version.
> 
> Current smartlist depend on base-passwd, which is the package it should
> depend on, since it has the "list" user in /etc/passwd.
> 
> So there is nothing to fix as far as smartlist is concerned.
>
You appear to have the "next version".
 
> However, I have a very very strange problem: When I update base-passwd
> package using dpkg, *nothing happens*. Has anybody else seen this
> behavioour?
>
Can you expand on "nothing"? 
If you built the system fresh from the base disks, this package is up to
date and dpkg will probably tell you so. Did you get any response from
dpkg?

Luck,

Dwarf

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