Subject: DANGER: installing ld.so & libc5 with dftp

From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400

There is a significant problem when installing "ld.so" and "libc5" using
'dftp'.

Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
"libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks.  After which nothing will
install.

I'll fix this for dftp v2.1, but for now it would be wise to install
these packages individually by hand with "dpkg --install <pkg>" before
running 'dftp' to fetch the rest of them.
                                             
                                          Brian
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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:16 CDT

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
   From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>

I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well.

--Mike

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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:16 CDT

--Mike

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:24:27 -0500 (CDT)

> I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well.

It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends?  That would
be extremely bad.

Guy

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:24:27 -0500 (CDT)

Guy

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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:16:44 -0400

> It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends?  That would

It is not the responsibility of either "dpkg-ftp" or "dftp" to handle
pre-depends in this case.  Since all of the relavent packages were passed
to "dpkg" at the same time, it is it's responsibility to ensure that
package unpacking and configuring happens in the correct order.
                                             
                                          Brian
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From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:16:44 -0400

Brian
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From: [email-masked] (Ronald van Loon)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)

|">    Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:19:55 -0400
|">    From: "Brian C. White" <[email-masked]>
|"> 
|">    Apparently, until "ld.so" is configured "libc5" won't install, and if
|">    "libc5" insn't configured then perl breaks.  After which nothing will
|">    install.
|"> 
|"> I believe this just happened to me with dpkg-ftp as well.
|"
|"It sounds like dpkg-ftp and dftp don't respect pre-depends?  That would
|"be extremely bad.

Hmmm, I installed my entire system with the 5 disks and dpkg-ftp (1.1.4) and
had no problems whatsoever.

Ronald van Loon ([email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Ronald van Loon)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)

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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 12:50 CDT

From: [email-masked] (Ronald van Loon)
   Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)

My initial installation went fine.  But at some point dselect decided to pull
down more recent version of (I believe) libc5 and ld.so and dpkg.  That was
when the problems occurred.

--Mike

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From: Mike Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 12:50 CDT

--Mike