Re: Installed lilo 1:21.7-1 (i386 source)
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:14:24AM -0700, Edward Betts wrote:
> > lilo (1:21.7-1) unstable; urgency=HIGH
> > .
> > * Now it pre-depends on logrotate, so if you try installing with `dpkg -i`
> > and logrotate isn't installed it won't replace the boot.b file that
> > /boot/map references if you do another `dpkg -i`.
>
> Was the pre-depends discussed on debian-devel?
Is lilo really messing with logrotate in its preinst? If so, why?
Can't it wait till the postinst? And if it does wait till the
postinst, it doesn't need to Pre-Depend on it.
Julian
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