Re: what a hack (dselect solution)
Aaron Solochek wrote: >Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with >dselect. It was complaing about not finding >/usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a >/usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving >out the .sh, to appease dselect. It seems to have worked, WTF? What >did I do? why would this problem have surfaced in the first place. Was >it just checking for the existance of that file, and not actually >reading or writing it? I thought about symlinking confmodule to confmodule.sh, but instead I upgraded debconf by hand, ie - 'apt-get install debconf'. That installed the proper confmodule script, and 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' finished the job without any more trouble. The problem seems to be packages requiring a more recent version of debconf not having a proper versioned dependancy. Frank
Re: what a hack (dselect solution)
That happened to me. I symlinked them instead :-D Seems harmless enough, but those are famous last words. Nothing has died on me (yet) On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:08:10AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with > dselect. It was complaing about not finding > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving > out the .sh, to appease dselect. It seems to have worked, WTF? What > did I do? why would this problem have surfaced in the first place. Was > it just checking for the existance of that file, and not actually > reading or writing it? > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ICQ me @ 319030 email @ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp28BJPPCGya.pgp Description: PGP signature
what a hack (dselect solution)
Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with dselect. It was complaing about not finding /usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving out the .sh, to appease dselect. It seems to have worked, WTF? What did I do? why would this problem have surfaced in the first place. Was it just checking for the existance of that file, and not actually reading or writing it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
