On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 08:55:52AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > One other dependency issue: I can't use apt right now because it wants to > remove libstdc++2.10-dev. It seems that while the library package has a > correct dependency, the development package depends on "libc6 (>=2.95.1)".. > both apt and dselect are annoyed about this, but dselect is easier to fake > out..
That's indeed the most criminal current bug: libc6 is only Provided on the Hurd, and the CVS dpkg doesn't like versioned dependencies on provided packages. A similar problem exists with Conflicts: and Provided packages. > > But it seems to be broken anyway. As a work around, remove the db > > entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > Ah, I see. That fixed it. Thanks! That didn't really fix it, it worked around it. I would appreciate more info on this. For example, ping dies with a Bus error when the db is in the file. > Ok. I just uploaded Hurd compiles of aptitude and lftp. aptitude will > compile out of the box in the next source upload (this was binary-only) -- > I forgot to conditionalize one "#include <pthread.h>". (I also will really > set up build-depends..) lftp compiled very nicely; I figured an upload was > overdue since the old version in the Hurd archives lacked most functionality > (it > could only print "Segmentation Fault" :-) ) Does lftp work? The last version did have serious problems when actually running it. I'd be glad to hear that the problems went away. It's my favourite ftp client. > > svgalib is dummy only. You might want to port it. svgatextmode was ported, > > and X was, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure it out. > > Ok. I didn't say it's easy ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
