Re: Problems with equivs
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Jason Gunthorpe, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>I'm not sure why you don't want to install mbr, all it is an image of the
>boot record that lilo uses to generate it's boot record from, with out
>/boot/mbr.b lilo will not work in some of it's capacities. If you don't
>have /boot/mbr.b and lilo works then there is no harm in having it. If you
>have a custom /boot/mbr.b then I suggest you rename it and use the proper
>lilo option to use the renamed version.
mbr is an additional boot loader that then loads lilo of off another
partition. lilo has it's own mbr that has worked just fine for several
years. I want my boot process to be as simple as possible. Adding
another program/package to the mix is unnecessarily complicating.
>As for libc6-dev - there is a REASON why it needs .32 and only .32 will do
>an it has been dredged up many times on this list, forcing .33 is not
>safe.
I've been corrected on this. I now have 2.0.32 headers.
>There presently is no way to tell APT to ignore these, aside from editing
>the status file and changing the dependancies. If you want to use it, you
>will have to install those two packages.
Well, my solution is to have a custom lilo package who's only difference
is no dependency on mbr...
Darren
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