Re: Installed lilo 1:21.7-1 (i386 source)
On Tuesday 27 February 2001 14:35, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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.
That was a mistake which has already been corrected. Version 1:21.7-2
removes the call the preinst script and 1:21.7-3 will remove the pre-depends
line in the control file.
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