Bug#4394: dselect does not appear to look for updates when access method is floppy

[Andrew G Wood]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.14elf

When using dselect with access method=floppy and filesystem=msdos, and after 
updating to the latest Packages file (Debian 1.1.8), a number of packages were 
selected as requiring updating/upgrading.  Going on to attempt to Install these 
packages gave the message that all packages were up to date.

If the access method was changed to a mounted filesystem and the Install 
attempted again (and after copying the relevant .deb files to the mounted 
filesystem) then a dpkg command is echoed (something like dpkg -iGROEB) and 
the relevant updated packages are found and updated.

It looks like this dpkg -iGROEB is not being issued when dselect is using
access method=floppy and filesystem=msdos?

Andy.

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Bug#3999: nfs module fails to load

[Andrew G Wood]

Package: kernel
Version: 2.0.6

I recently updated from debian 1.1 - kernel version 2.0.0 - to 1.1.3
by installing the new package in base/kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb
(plus the updated dpkg and kbd).

Rebooting the machine showed that all was working apart from the nfs
module failing to load with lots of undefined symbol errors.

Rebuilding the nfs module from base/kernel-source-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb
and replacing the existing one in /lib/modules fixed the problem.

Andy.

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