On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:20:14PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Lets take [EMAIL PROTECTED] of the cc list, this is not an abuse > complaint. Lets add debian-devel since this actually is a normal > technical question. > > > Previously Kenneth H. Carpenter wrote: > > I have been using the Debian distribution since it first came out, and > > I appreciate the effort that has been made to make it robust and keep it > > "free." But I think it would be helpful if Debian did not change the > > entry points for standard utilities so that ones wanting to add software > > not in Debian would not have to be aware of these changes. > > In this case it seems a wrapper was added to work around some devfs > issues, but it calls the actual lilo with the exact options you gave > it. Can you explain how exactly that broke mindi? Once we know > exactly what the problems is we can look at fixing it.
The problem is that it creates a rootfs (I believe) and copies /sbin/lilo blindly to the new rootfs. Thus, you just have a broken shell script. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
