Re: modutils
Syrus,
Many thanks - you got me out of a bit of a hole, there.
dpkg now says that modutils is installed, but I notice that
/dev/init.d/boot still refers to modutils. Hope this is OK.
Lindsay
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says:
> > Kernel was compiled with module support
> > Modules package cannot be removed
> >
> > Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment.
>
> Yes. This one can be solved by hand with dpkg. You need to ftp the
> modutils and modules .deb files from bo. They have the same revision
> numbers. In the following order:
>
> dpkg -i modules*.deb /* "upgrade" modules with dummy
> modules package */
>
> dpkg -i modutils*.deb modules*.deb /* allows dpkg to "see" that modutils
> replaces modules. dpkg will now
> do the right thing(TM) */
>
> Please everyone, note that this problem has been well-reported and should
> be fixed prior to the release of 1.3.
>
> Thanks. Syrus.
>
> --
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
>
>
>
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