Re: identity of mkinitrd; possible dependency problems with woody
> The instructions for 2.4 kernels say that mkinitrd should be upgraded;
> debian has no package by that name; is this the same as mkinitrd-cd or is
> it something different?
As far as I can tell, mkinitrd != mkinitrd-cd.
packages.debian.org shows that mkinitrd is supplied by initrd-tools.
> Thinking it might be the same as mkinitrd-cd, I tried to install it and
> was told some packages could not install. There is apparently a conflict
> involving packages pyton, python-dev vs. python-base. If you allow
> python-dev and python to be installed, you still get "some packages could
> not be installed" when you try to install mkinitrd-cd; you are told in
> both cases that mkinitrd depends on boot-floppies but this isn't going to
> be installed, and if you try to install boot-floppies, you are told that
> other python-related packages are needed, depending on which ones you have
> installed. But if you go back and let the given set of python packages be
> installed, another python package you are supposed to need will be
> removed; this conflict appears to go on between python-base vs. python-dev
> and python. Is this a debian problem or have I misinstalled something?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
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