On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:02:00AM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > 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? Yeah, good call. That's what I intended to do ... I guess I wasn't reading/thinking completely well that evening! -- Nathan Norman Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 "Eschew Obfuscation" Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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