Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2002-05-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: * Depends on sysvinit (= 2.72), which is not available on the Hurd. A provides in some Hurd package is not good enough because dpkg can't cope with versioned dependencies on provided packages last time I checked. What's wrong with having an

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2002-05-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:02:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: * Depends on sysvinit (= 2.72), which is not available on the Hurd. A provides in some Hurd package is not good enough because dpkg can't cope with versioned dependencies on

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2002-05-18 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:02:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: * Depends on sysvinit (= 2.72), which is not available on the Hurd. A provides in some Hurd package is not good enough because dpkg can't cope with versioned dependencies on

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2002-05-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: What's wrong with having an empty sysvinit? I'm certain other packages would have this same issue, not just dpkg. Because having 100 dummy packages is just ugly and bloat the archive. What's wrong with fixing the actual problem? The problem

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2002-05-18 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:06:32PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: What's wrong with having an empty sysvinit? I'm certain other packages would have this same issue, not just dpkg. Because having 100 dummy packages is just ugly and bloat the

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2001-02-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: * #31620: Use of hard fixed errno ENOENT in some scripts Wichert says he would ask Jason if apt copes with a predependency on perl-5.6-base. If it doesn't, it should, but it makes sense to delay the change until apt can cope if it can't already, if that

Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2001-02-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, dpkg 1.8.3.1 still does not deliver a functional dpkg for the Hurd. Here is a list of all out standing issues I am aware of. Most of them are known for a long time by now. * #31620: Use of hard fixed errno ENOENT in some scripts Wichert says he would ask Jason if apt copes with a