On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:16:54AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > >2) irritating: When installing from a (not yet mounted) hard disk partition > > > and entering the path to the main distribution, the > > > following > > > message appeared: > > > " /usr/lib/dpk//methods/disk/setup: line 8: 200 Broken Pipe > > > find "$mountpoint$2" -follow -name '*.deb' -print 2> > > > /dev/null > > > 201 Done | head -1 > > > 201 Done | grep . > /dev/null" > > > But all worked fine. > > You meant when using "dselect"? Perhaps you should file a bug report > against dpkg. Well, I only encountered this once (yes, this was using dselect), and as I may not be able to reproduce this, it could be useless to file a bug. I may do it anyway. > > >3) bad: Still perl problems. Not with libnet, but dpkg-perl depends on > > >perl. > > > So I got error message after "install", switched to console, > > > manually mounted partition with debian-image, manually installed > > > perl, and then "configured". After this, "install" worked again. > > dpkg-perl should depend on perl-base, as there's no perl but perl-base > in the base system and dpkg-perl works with perl-base. > I have filed a bug against perl-base, and I've seen it has another > long-standing packaging bug, so I guess its maintainer (Klee Dienes) is > really busy these days. Does anyone has the time to do a non-maintainer > upload? Klee is really *busy*. He didn't respond to some mail about koules (another, but very unimportant) package. I did a nmr of koules, and still didn't hear anything. Do you have filed a bug against dpkg-perl, too? (As you say you filed one against perl-base?). > > > After running kbdconfig manually, basis layouot was okay, but I > > > couldn't enter german keys. I think this is because /etc/inputrc > > > has > > > "set convert-meta off" commented out. I think it should be the > > > default. > > In fact that was the default for a few libreadline*.deb versions, because > we wanted Debian to be latin1-compatible "out of the box", but Guy Maor > (readline maintainer) changed it back because leaving it "on" broke "META-x" > handling, and there were a few bug reports about that. (Guy also removed some > definitions that made the Home, End and Delete keys work). I guess it's time > (again) to discuss which should be the defaults. Perhaps asking the user at > installation/upgrade time. This setting does not need to change (well, we need a real keyboard setup sometime, but this can wait). As I wrote below, the real problem was LC_ALL, not convert-meta (as I found out later). > > > After removing the "#", and therefore switching off > > > meta-convert, I still had problems, because the wrong font was > > > loaded. Editing /etc/kbd/config didn't help (what use has this file > > > anyway). I'm not sure what actions should be taken here. > > > > I tracked this down to a missing LC_ALL="de_DE" for bash in /etc/profile. > > Coudl we implement something along this (for several shells e.g.) in the > > boot disks? With the correct keymap the locale setting should probably > > set, too. > > May be. Is it OK to modify /etc/profile at install time? (/etc/profile is > a conffile of libreadline). I can hear the sound of the mythical can of > worms opening... I did hear something about /etc/envronment, but I'm not sure what purpose it has and if it works for all shells, etc. Well, I hope it is okay to change /etc/profile, as it is *very* annoying for non-english users (esp. first time user) to have to guess keys (and not knowing how to fix this). Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]