RE: dpkg: motifnls error
On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:56 AM, Gabrie van Zanten [SMTP:gabrievz@cuci.nl]
wrote:
> 1. I noticed on the CD I bought there is a dir called /bo/msdos-i3 full off
> *.deb files of 0 bytes. This must be a mistake, not ?
There's nothing wrong with those files. Actualyy, they're just links to the
real files. If you look on your CD, you'll find in every directory a file named
TRANS.TBL which keeps the corespondence between the long name of the file and
its MSDOS name. Also, it is stated there if the file is a directory (D), link
(L) or file (F). Under Linux, you'll see the CD with long names and links
(somehow similar with Win95 shortcuts).
And a suggestion for those who maintain the Debian ftp sites: can you put a
TRANS.TBL file in the non-free but which should have F instead of L. I say this
for the following reason: at the office I have an Win95 machine with a CD
burner. I can burn Joilet or ISO CDs, but not "Linux" CDs. When I download from
msdos-i3 directory I get all the files that have links to them in msdos-i3. But
they come with MSDOS names. If you'll put a TRANS.TBL with those MSDOS names
and F in front of them I will we able to burn them on my CD using ISO. As I do
not have Internet connection home (just e-mail), I have no other option to take
non-free. (I have to agree that dselect is smart enough to find out which file
contain which package even if you change the name of the file: I came to this
conclusion after burning a Joilet CD which, under Linux and without Joilet
patch, looks like Win95 files from DOS. But I'm not dselect 8-)).
Ionutz
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