Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration
On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 08:36:38 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do with
> > > avahi-daemon, whyinhell did purging avahi-daemon take the libnsswitch
> > > package with it?
>
> > I'm puzzled too. Can you tell us which package you're talking about as
> > I can only find:
> >
> > Package lib32nss-mdns
> > Package libnss3
> [snip]
>
> I'm pretty sure Gene means this one:
>
> wooledg:~$ apt-cache show avahi-daemon | grep libnss
> Recommends: libnss-mdns
>
> As I demonstrated somewhere else in this thread,[1] removing avahi-daemon
> also removes libnss-mdns, and installing avahi-daemon also installs
> libnss-mdns, at least when using apt with whatever settings I'm currently
> using. Which are probably pretty close to the defaults.
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00258.html
Yes, thanks for that; posting saves others from having to test what's
going on. I guess we should hardly be surprised. So the Debian system
that's allegedly completely broken (and has been "nuked" into who
knows what shape) turns out to be not a Debian system at all. Such a
waste of time.
Cheers,
David.
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