Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

1999-06-14 Thread Marc Mongeon
But certainly this was intended to be an automated feature, right? Is it a flag that you give to dpkg, or the compiled default in some later version (I'm running 1.4.0.34, and have no Contents), or just the result of a bunch of Debian users deciding it was a Good Idea to schedule a cron job to

Re: Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

1999-06-14 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Marc Mongeon wrote: But certainly this was intended to be an automated feature, right? Is it a flag that you give to dpkg, or the compiled default in some later version (I'm running 1.4.0.34, and have no Contents), or just the result of a bunch of Debian users deciding it was a Good Idea to

Re: Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

1999-06-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kirk Hogenson wrote: Marc Mongeon wrote: But certainly this was intended to be an automated feature, right? Is it a flag that you give to dpkg, or the compiled default in some later version (I'm running 1.4.0.34, and have no Contents), or just the result of a bunch of Debian users

Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

1999-06-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:08:04PM -0500, ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I kind of hate to jump into a string like this but at the risk of sounding real stupid how can one create this /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-i386.gz file. I've searched for it on my Slink system and it just isn't there. I took a