Re: New user install report
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:02:39AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
>
> * HURD filesystems needed to be created with -O none to avoid making
> a filesystem with 2.2 enhancements (I think -O none should really
> be the default when specifying -o...);
The latest packages and grub should handle the new format just fine.
> * I needed to remove modules/gconv from the list of optional packages
> to install in cross-install;
Well, cross-install was indeed badly out of date, I will upload a new
version in a few minutes. Sorry for any inconvenience.
> * /usr/info/dir is expected to be present by the postinstall of
> textutils (among others), unfortunately it does not exist and the
> /sbin/install-info script fails because of it. The solution is to
> touch /usr/info/dir, then run /sbin/clean-info. The postinstalls
> then run correctly.
No, configuring base-files creates the directory. This is the reason why
there are actually two runs of dpkg --configure --pending.
Unfortunately, due to a bug in libc.postinst, base-files does not configure
properly. The new native-install contains a work around (removing
/var/mail).
> * base-files tries to create /var/mail, but it already exists as a
> symlink. Removing it and rerunning dpkg --configure works.
Yep, indeed. Fixing this first, the info dir is a non-issue.
Thanks for the report,
Marcus
--
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server
Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, marcus@gnu.org PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ brinkmd@debian.org
Reply to: