Re: dselect

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 87btut6cux.fsf@1Cust120.max37.los-angeles.ca.ms.uu.net>,
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> wrote:
>sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer) writes:
>
>> Just curious.. are we going to set up links, or fix dselect, to make
>> dselect look at the 'dists' tree now? It's a real PITA for new users
>
>I plan to fix dselect's default backends and dpkg-ftp so they handle
>the dists/ directory in a friendly manner.

Guy,

	if you're going to hack in dpkg anyway (to fix dselect) could
you please apply this diff to update-rc.d as well ?

--- update-rc.d.orig	Thu Mar 26 15:09:14 1998
+++ update-rc.d	Thu Mar 26 15:09:45 1998
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 	if (! defined $linkdst) {
 	    die ("update-rc.d: error reading symbolic link: $!\n");
 	}
-	if (($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn") && ($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn")) {
+	if (($linkdst ne "$initd/$bn") && ($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn")) {
 	    print STDERR "update-rc.d: warning: $fn is not a link to ../init.d/$bn\n";
 	    return 0;
 	}


Mike.
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