Re: ppp need to be repackaged (kbd also)
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:21:16PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I managed to fix my local mirror to be related to slink only (I removed the
> links to potato/*/binary-all, added their counterpart to slink then reran
> dpkg-scanpackages).
> I then installed some new packages with dselect but at least two packages were
> not correctly installed & configured:
>
> - ppp: postinst fails with the following error:
>
> chown: .: can not omit both user and group
>
> In fact, I didn't install suidregister and the fallback code is incorrect:
>
> -------excerpt of ppp postinst---------
> # Permission processing inserted by debmake on Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:48:58 +0200
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ]; then
> suidregister -s ppp /usr/sbin/pppd
> else
> chown . /usr/sbin/pppd
> chmod /usr/sbin/pppd
> fi
> -------excerpt of ppp postinst---------
>
> Don't know if it's related only to sparc dist...
> Could it be repackaged right ?
Seems like a general problem. Could you file a bug report if it's not
done already ?
>
> - kbd depends on kbd-data 0.96a-10 but 0.96a-11 is in the archive.
>
Yep. We are still behind with a lot of packages. I've got some time to
fix some things up during the next couple of days.
Greetings,
Christian
--
Christian Meder, email: meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de
What's the railroad to me ?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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