Re: problem doing slink -> frozen

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote:

> It's a circular pre-depends.  I'm appending my previous email on the
> subject.  I've seen a few posts that say my method works, but I still
> don't guarantee it :)

> I created a file "/usr/bin/readlink" with the following contents:
> 
>   #! /bin/sh
>   true
> 
> I then installed libc6 using a --force-depends (this is your third

The potato debianutils_1.13.2.deb puts readlink into /bin, not /usr/bin.
Shouldn't you have done the same so that your stub eventually gets
overwritten with the actual readlink program?

...RickM...