I'm not sure whether this is a bug in dpkg or boot-floppies ... The dpkg invocations that caused me problems were:
if dpkg --compare-versions util-linux_2.7.1-3.deb gt util-linux_2.7.1-3.4.deb; then echo yes; fi if dpkg --compare-versions ae_962-21.deb gt ae_962-21.1.deb; then echo yes; fi Both say "yes". This was with version 1.4.0.23.2 and version 1.4.0.33 of dpkg. These cause boot-floppies to fail because it chose the older rather than the newer versions of those packages. The older versions then required older versions of slang and newt. It then ran out of space in the floppy image because there isn't space for two versions of slang and newt. dpkg --compare-versions does seem to give the right result if you remove the ".deb" suffix; maybe dpkg is intended to assume that the suffix isn't there. Anyway, there is a simple work-around: in /usr/src/boot-floppies/common.sh replace `basename $x` by `basename $x | sed -e 's/\.deb$//'` (or a neater way of doing that). Enrique, I suggest you make that change in common.sh even if the behaviour of dpkg is going to be changed in the future as this problem of picking up the wrong package may cause subtle problems otherwise. Edmund
