On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 08:38:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Hey guys -- I just did the apt-get stuff to upgrade to potato, but the > > silly thing died several times. After restarting it often enough, I > > got to the point where netbase was causing eight other packages to not > > install -- netbase kept returning "hostname: host not found" or > > something very similar. > > > > The solution to this problem ( after much banging of head..) was to > > add my hostname and IP address to /etc/hosts -- does netbase require > > knowing that much about /etc/hosts ? am I missing the point? > > IIRC, the install sets that entry in /etc/hosts for you. Of course, if you > skip that step then you have to do it yourself... > > Of course this may be wrong. Feel free to correct me if so (no need to CC, > i'm subscribed to the list)
Well, the install sets that entry in the distant past (a few days in my case, perhaps months behind in other's cases....) but it seems non-intuitive for the error message to not include the HOSTNAME that it is trying to lookup -- I feel a bit wierd submitting a bugreport for such a silly little problem, but a private email shows that I am not the first to have experienced this little suprise. :) > > And, a more applicable-to-the-future question -- how can I view the > > postrm and prerm and postinst and preinst scripts of a deb? :) > > They're in /var/lib/dpkg/info. You can even edit them if there's a bug, > and dpkg will use the edited version next time. JOY! That sounds nice. Exactly what I was wanting to see the other day when the install died. :) > IIRC if there's an error in the preinst, you'll get an error while > unpacking and the script won't be saved. "dpkg -e <debfile> [<dir>]" will > extract these scripts from the deb into a DEBIAN/ subdir in the specified > directory, or the current one if no dir is specified. Slick slick slick. This package management dealy is much nicer than others I have tried. :) (all that, and the user support is wonderful! :) > - -- > finger for PGP public key. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBN9HJir7M/9WKZLW5AQHMbgP+N1rV/ms75h64XOYlBKzK+77o03NCSv6g > E+P6lv59xeLdih3D3jP+c7Cx0N2sFqPsCdB1G6Y/myQTC3sKmAgtmdCjnHgQkzoJ > RkiHpMzRLkhqGP5wswVcmaik6z7zDMEX2JPxT2JMwWbV8T0odXN6Fua/QWoxmNdV > e6kqZAC0PRU= > =d/4/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
