On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:55:55PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > As a workaround, the generated modules package could pre-depend on the > > utils package. That would stop dpkg from unpacking it and leaving a > > useless installation. > > Is the installation really more useless with the modules > unpackaged-but-not-configured than with the modules not unpacked at > all? I fail to imagine any situation where that could be the case.
I don't know. That was the impression I got from the OP's rantings. It seemed that the old package worked without the -utils, but the new package didn't. So when the new package was unpacked (but couldn't be configured), it broke the working installation. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
