On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:10:17AM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: > Yes, the /usr/sbin file is one of two that should actually be in > /usr/sbin, by changing the line in the Makefile, it creates the > directory and when creating the deb file, places in it two files, > dpkg-preconfig and dpkg-reconfigure.
Ah! I wasn't aware of that. I'm still pretty new to all this, and hadn't been able to follow the makefile well enough. Thanks for the explanation. > > enough to let me install debconf. And that meant I could install a > > couple of things that had gotten stuck due to depending on debconf. > > You could just configure the unconfigured packages by running > dpkg --configure --pending, but I'm unsure that by not installing > those files whether or not that will affect other packages that > depend on debconf. I'll give it a whirl and see what happens. Thanks. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
