Package: watchdog Version: 5.4-6 Severity: serious Michael,
watchdog fails to install with an error if one doesn't have makedev installed. # apt-get install watchdog Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: watchdog 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 69.3kB of archives. After this operation, 283kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org sid/main watchdog 5.4-6 [69.3kB] Fetched 69.3kB in 4s (13.9kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package watchdog. (Reading database ... 174773 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking watchdog (from .../watchdog_5.4-6_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up watchdog (5.4-6) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/watchdog.postinst: line 18: /sbin/MAKEDEV: No such file or directory The patch should do something like: if [ -x /dev/MAKEDEV ]; then echo "creating foo devices..." /dev/MAKEDEV foo fi Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages watchdog depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii udev 0.125-7 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo watchdog recommends no packages. watchdog suggests no packages. -- debconf information: watchdog/module: none watchdog/run: true watchdog/restart: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
