On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:10:36AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 06:38:41AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > O: Selecting previously deselected package mawk. > > > O: dpkg: regarding .../mawk_1.3.3-15ubuntu2_amd64.deb containing mawk, pre-dependency problem: > > > O: mawk pre-depends on libc6 (>= 2.11~20100104-0ubuntu3) > > > O: libc6 is unpacked, but has never been configured. > > > O: dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem! > > > O: Unpacking mawk (from .../mawk_1.3.3-15ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ... > > > P: Unpacking package mawk > > > D: Updating mawk to status 2 > > > O: Selecting previously deselected package base-files. > > > O: dpkg: regarding .../base-files_5.0.0ubuntu20_amd64.deb containing base-files, pre-dependency problem: > > > O: base-files pre-depends on awk > > > O: mawk provides awk but is unpacked but not configured. > > > O: dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem! > > > O: Unpacking base-files (from .../base-files_5.0.0ubuntu20_amd64.deb) ... > > > P: Unpacking package base-files > > > D: Updating base-files to status 2 > > Only because it's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that causes > > initramfs-tools to be pulled into the essential set (which I do not), this > > is a cdebootstrap bug for not fulfilling the pre-depends of the essential > > packages before continuing. > You should know better, awk is not essential. Also essential means that > it have to work _without_ being configured. I know quite well that awk *is* part of the essential closure, because it's a pre-dependency of an essential package. Even *unpacking* of base-files is not supposed to happen (in an ideal world) before awk has been configured, and you definitely shouldn't be trying to configure *other* packages before the pre-depends of essential packages have been satisfied. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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