On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Rick wrote: > The files are dependant on order. To update properly you should put what > are expected to be the most recent files at the end of the list. > Otherwise you may not be shown newer files that exist in other tree's. > > [stable contrib non-free Debian1.2-updates unstable] Would you recommend that I should try this from scratch or should it be enough to correct this list and continue with dselect.
> > findutils_4.1-20.deb: > > unable to create `usr/bin/find': Text file busy > > Should have done a ps -aux to see if find was being used at the time. If > not check for a lingering lock file. I tried successfully another trick. As I wrote I mounted /usr via NFS. I supposed that this would be the problem and tried the following: 1) mv /usr/bin/find /local_usrbin 2) ln -s /local_usrbin/find /usr/bin/find where /local_usrbin is a directory on a local drive (root). This worked for find but not for several other files (for instance mcserv (from mc-package) and ispell). I'm really sure that this is a problem of NFS. I've got I hint from other readers of this list while asking further questions that there is a "File locking"- mechanism of NFS. What about this? How to avoid this or come around this tricky problem? Thanks for the reply. Are there any further hints. Andreas.