Package: rear Version: 2.00+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Rear can be used to create a bootable USB drive. For this to work, the package 'extlinux' needs to be installed on the system. If you do not have the package installed, rear will produce this error message: | root@sandy:~# rear mkbackuponly | Aborting due to an error, check /var/log/rear/rear-sandy.5348.log for details | Terminated Please add a Recommends or Suggests 'extlinux' to the rear package. Reinhard -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages rear depends on: ii attr 1:2.4.47-2+b2 ii binutils 2.28-5 ii dosfstools 4.1-1 ii ethtool 1:4.8-1+b1 ii gawk 1:4.1.4+dfsg-1 ii iproute 1:4.9.0-1 ii iputils-ping 3:20161105-1 ii isolinux 3:6.03+dfsg-14.1 ii lsb-release 9.20161125 ii openssl 1.1.0f-3 ii parted 3.2-17 ii syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-14.1 ii xorriso 1.4.6-1+b1 Versions of packages rear recommends: ii nfs-common [nfs-client] 1:1.3.4-2.1 ii rpcbind [portmap] 0.2.3-0.6 rear suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/rear/local.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
