Re: potato ftp client uses libreadline2g

[Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>]

I can explain this, I think :-)

At one stage (slink?), boot-floppies were building base*.tgz with
a few specially extracted binaries (ftp, telnet & maybe a few others)
because these binaries didn't have their own packages like they do now
and the said binaries were considered vital to base*.tgz. Space
limitations stopped the whole package (netstd?) from being included.

The other factor is that ftp was split out from netstd at some stage
and apt-get didn't automatically cope with this situation whereas
dselect driven upgrades did handle it ok.

thats my theory anyway.

		Greg



On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:52:16PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 16:01, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > So Joey's idea of /etc/alternatives/ftp doesn't work.  Maybe it is in
> > > base*.tgz but isn't in one of the base packages, as suggested?
> > 
> > No, that's not it:
> > 
> > root@gumdrop:/localhome/joey/tmp/bb>chroot . bin/sh
> > gumdrop:/# dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp
> > ftp: /usr/bin/ftp
> > 
> > This is an extracted base tarball.
> 
> In case you missed the original post:
> 
> $ which ftp
> /usr/bin/ftp
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/ftp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        56556 Feb 12  1999 /usr/bin/ftp
> 
> $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp
> dpkg: /usr/bin/ftp not found.
> 
> $ ldd /usr/bin/ftp
>         libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x40016000)
>         libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4003f000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4007e000)
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4015b000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> $ dpkg -S /lib/libreadline.so.2
> libreadlineg2: /lib/libreadline.so.2
> 
> Simple box (125 packages) upgraded from a recent slink install with
> 
> apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> without problems (kbd held back, installed cleanly with apt-get install
> after the dist-upgrade).
> 
> I noticed the situation when I removed libreadline2g and ftp refused to
> work.
> 
> I haven't installed the ftp package in the hope that I may be able to
> help run this to ground with the box as is.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Pann
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