On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Leandro Motta Barros
<lmbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am using the packages from
> http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/packages/ to make a major update
> to my system, which was presenting some problems after these years of
> small updates over small updates. I am doing almost an installation
> from scratch. I updated all the packages, disabled almost everything I
> had installed and now I am recompiling the stuff I need.
>
> So far, so good. The packages mostly work out of the box. I found just
> a few problems, which I am reporting now so that everyone else can be
> aware of them.
>
> (BTW, thank you very much to take the time to prepare those packages.
> They spared me a lot of trouble!)
>
> First, if this is going to be put into an updated ISO, there are some
> missing dependencies. So far, I've found that the following packages
> should be added:
>
> 1) Startup-Notification (Firefox needs it)
> 2) Popt (Rsync needs it)
> 3) PTH (GnuPG and LibAssuan need it)
Thanks for that list, I've put those packages into the store now.
> Second: when running traceroute and ping (from InetUtils), I get an
> error message like "unknown protocol icmp". I've found that the
> /s/s/protocols file is missing (crating a proper /s/s/protocols file
> solved the problem) I suppose that this file (and perhaps others)
> should have been distributed in the InetUtils' default settings.
That file is part of Netkit-Base here. I don't know whether that
program is suitable to use or not; I use InetUtils' ping but have
Netkit-Base's inetd linked in. If Netkit-Base should be missed out
/S/S/protocols will need to come from somewhere else.
> Finally, for an ISO, a GRUB package would be needed, too.
Yes. Grub is an issue - Grub2 is where all development happens now and
the Grub series that was on the 014 CD is completely unsupported, but
the installer relies on the configuration file used in the old series,
which doesn't work now. I think we may be best off using a patched
Grub 0.97, like the recipe that's in the store, but it is finicky, and
I'm not an expert on the subject. If anyone has any input it would be
helpful.
-Michael
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