Potato CD Testing (Aigarius, 17-Jan-2000)
Hi all.
So I have received my Potato cd's. I made few installs with them and now
I wanted to share my first opinions/bug reports.
Note: the CD I have were made 17-Jan-2000, so some bugs might be already
fixed.
First thing I noted was that when making the boot floppy I wasn't asked
for the floppy device. It's a small detail, but it might be needed
sometimes.
Next LILO wasn't put on the MBR of the first hard drive, so I needed to
boot from the floppy.
Then came the dselect. I chose to install from cdrom. Here was the first
important bug:
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt did not exist which made the mounting the
cdrom there impossible.
Fixed by making that directory.
And then came the main problem:
It seams that perl-5.005 does not Provide perl, all packages depending
on perl showed up as packages with broken depends.
I worked this around by also installing perl-5.004
( strange )
Later, when trying multicd install it appeared that
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/availible (file) also was not there.
Fixed by touching the file.
One already reported problem :
Clock is set to GMT regales of what is said while installing.
Two broken packages:
gnuchessbook:
/usr/lib/games/gnuchess/gnuchess.data was not present.
Fixed by making the dir and touching the file.
libungif3g-dev:
Broken post install script.
dpkg couldn't execute it.
Also it looked strange that 8 packages were broken before the first
dselect run. (libreadlineg2, modutils, ncurses-bin, procps, setserial,
lilo, ftp, modconf)
The CD arrived yesterday so this is just the first look.
The Testing still to come.
P.S. Please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere.
P.S.S. Sorry for my bad English.
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Aigarius
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