Re: dpkg 0.93.71: conffile handling bugfix &c
CD Rasmussen writes ("Re: dpkg 0.93.71: conffile handling bugfix &c "):
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 95 11:02 BST
> From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
>
> What version of the dpkg package are you using ? What version of the
> base disks did you use ? Versions 0.93.68 and onwards contain dselect
> methods.
>
> The base disks werre from the pre-release area, the dpkg was 0.93.71,
> I got it from the Incoming directory. The install was a clean install
> on a newly formated partition.
IC. Ian M., do the prerelease basedisks have any method scripts that
aren't part of the dpkg package ? If so they should be removed.
Costa, can you check to see if what you have corresponds to what I
have, as shown below ? (I have dpkg 0.93.71 installed and dselect
works for me.)
Ian.
chiark:~> ls -lR /usr/lib/dpkg/methods /usr/local/lib/dpkg/methods
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods:
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 31 14:13 disk/
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk:
total 14
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 Aug 31 14:11 desc.cdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170 Aug 31 14:11 desc.harddisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 Aug 31 14:11 install*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 Aug 31 14:11 names
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8556 Aug 31 14:11 setup*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 464 Aug 31 14:11 update*
/usr/local/lib/dpkg/methods:
total 0
chiark:~> dpkg -L dpkg
/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/copyright
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL
/usr/doc/copyright/dpkg
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/md5sum
/usr/bin/install-info
/usr/bin/dselect
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb.dist
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d
/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon
/usr/man
/usr/man/man5
/usr/man/man5/deb.5
/usr/man/man5/deb-control.5
/usr/man/man8
/usr/man/man8/dpkg-deb.8
/usr/man/man8/install-info.8
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/dpkg
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/names
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/update
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.harddisk
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.cdrom
/var
/var/lib
/var/lib/dpkg
/var/lib/dpkg/info
/var/lib/dpkg/updates
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
chiark:~>
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