Package: kernel-package
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: kernel-package
Version: 2.03
Depends: perl (>= 5.002-8)
Recommends: libc-dev, gcc
Suggests: kernel-source
I am installing a custom kernel using kernel-package. Whenever it
tries to build the new psdatabase I get an error message. The
relevant portion of /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.0.12.postinst is
if ( -x "/sbin/psupdate" && -f "/boot/vmlinux-$version" ) {
unlink("/boot/psdatabase");
symlink("/boot/psdatabase-$version", "/boot/psdatabase");
system("/sbin/psupdate /boot/vmlinux-$version");
if ( -f "/boot/psdatabase-$version" ) {
unlink("/boot/vmlinux-$version");
}
else {
print "\nAn error seems to have ocurred while generating the\n";
print "psdatabase file /boot/psdatabase. NOT deleting the\n";
print "/boot/vmlinux-$version so that the database may be \n";
print "created manually\n";
}
}
so after running /sbin/psupdate there is an attempt to find if
/boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate
indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked
and indeed that file was updated. Am I supposed to have a link from
/etc/psdatabase to /boot/psdatabase? This sequence would make sense
to me if that was the case.
--
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Statistics Department 608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
