Re: Report on Installing Debian from 'current' disks
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:31:07PM +0200 , Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> it all went ok but there was something to say about.
>
> i was about to install the base system, and it dared to give me a choice to install from network. ok, the idea was good.. BUT, it didn't know that i didn't have the network drivers! (as they don't come with the kernel, Doh!)
> also.. after installing LILO, it gives the output in a 1 line high box, when it could be bigger...
>
> one thing i'm missing is a 'clean' install which just gives me an options to select just the packages i need... (meaning, clean would deinstall everything and install base packages...)
you can. IIRC you don't select any prepared package selection and just run
dselect without selecting packages.
> also, thing i noticed here is, why does sysvinit depend on dpkg?
update-rc.d
> then again, thing we need is a package to depend in the system critical functions, such as init, dpkg and such... (now that i cleaned the system i need a function to make the system depend on the basic functions for booting...
> - we could have virtual packages to provide functions such as debian-boot, debian-init and debian-login, and one package would depend on those. something like debian-base?
IMHO too much complicated
> while continuing on installation i seemed to have forgotten libreadlineg2.. and it tried to remove it.. thus, ropeting an error about basename missing (missing dependancy somewhere?)
>
> dpkg should depend on tar!
No. tar is essential, so you needn't declare dependency on it.
> console-tools should depend on packages that provide sed, sort, tr, cat and fmt (textutils and sed are some packages that provide those) also i noticed that it depends on find.. but not there
dtto
> postfix needs diff... for the startup scripts...
?? report bug on postfix
> HAHA! this was unexpected... .bash_logout complains about not having clear... it should test for it before running it (it is autoinstalled so it is reasonable)
hmm. ncurses-bin is required so it should be almost everytime installed
> i'm not sure if Elvis-tiny should register itself to alternative for an editor.. but it doesn't....
It does.
> ok, i'm done now... it has been some 4 hours since first boot.. finally getting the system the way i like it.. but now, it's time to go home.
> hopefully this information is useful for the maintainers of mentioned packages, and the ideas here are thought about...
If you find a bug in a package report it agains that package. Not everyone
reads debian-devel and this description must not always be sufficient to
determine the bug.
>
> ps. this was an experimental setup, just to test on frozen.. please, think of it as one =)
> --
> Sami Haahtinen (ressu@uusikaupunki.fi)
Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
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