Re: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
	Date: Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:18:41AM -0800

In reply to:Marc Wilson

Quoting Marc Wilson(marc@moonkingdom.net):
> Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary
> that's not installed on the system is part of, eh?
> 
> I KNOW what it's part of.  It's part of netkit-rpc.  WHY doesn't
> netkit-inetd depend on that?
> 

I tried to help by showing where it was coming from on 'my' system.

dpkg -S `which rpcinfo`

but I forgot the result :-(  sorry
netbase: /usr/bin/rpcinfo

Now, as to Why "doesn't netkit-inetd depend on that" you will have to 
ask the maintainer, that question.
-- 
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 If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
 then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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