Re: testing boot floppies 3.0.18

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Joey Hess writes:
 > Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
 > > Ok, here is why the above check is not working corrrectly,
 > > 
 > >     from the "/var/lib/dpkg/info/ppp.postinst" file,
 > > 
 > >     test -f /etc/ppp/peers/provider || \
 > >       install -g dip -m 640 /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/provider.peer /etc/ppp/peers /provider
 > 
 > Hm, what version of ppp do you have there? The postinst here copies in
 > /usr/share/ppp/provider.peer

    135 jeff ~ $ dpkg --root=/bf-test -l ppp
    [...]
    ii  ppp            2.4.1.uus-1    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.

    142 jeff ~ $ locate provider.peer
    /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/provider.peer

So, I have no such file /usr/share/ppp/provider.peer on my system.

 > 
 > Anyway, I will upload a fix ASAP.
 > 
 > > here is one such message, if you want to seem all of them, then
 > > just install pcmcia-cs on a workstation,
 > > 
 > >     Linux PCMCIA Card Servide 3.1.29
 > >     kernel build: 2.2.19 unknown
 > >     option: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
 > >     Intel ISA/PCI/Cardbus PCI probe: no bridges found
 > >     ds: no socket drives loaded
 > 
 > Oh. That's minor and no worse than many kernel messages probing for
 > nonexistant hardware. There's also no way to work around it since the
 > boot floppie shave never removed pcmcia-cs if it is unneeded, that is
 > left to base-config.

So, in /usr/lib/base-config/25pcmcia it says,

    # If pcmcia was not set up in the instial install, it is safe to ask about
    # removing it. If it was set up, keep it, and don't even ask.
    if [ "$PCMCIA" = no ]; then

Last time I did a complete install, using a slightly older version
of base-config (current is 1.33, older was 1.xx, I don't know
exactly which version it was, whatever was in woody/testing just
prior to 1.33), pcmcia-cs had not been removed by base-config even
though I had not done anything to "set it up" under boot-floppies.

Could you have a look at the setting of this $PCMCIA variable?  I
would have to close down my ppp connection, and then download the
30MB of standard packages to be able to test this right now.

 > 
 > -- 
 > see shy jo

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Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>