On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > What's this "serious warning" business all about? Why should the lpr > package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI), > but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files > installed. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > desktop# dpkg -i lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package > `kernel-source-2.2.12' missing, assuming package has no files currently > installed.
This has nothing to do with lpr. It's from dpkg checking it's install files (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*) and making sure all is well before proceeding with the upgrade. Apparently, you removed (or something removed) the kernel-source-2.2.12 .list file from that directory, so dpkg removes the references to it from /var/lib/dpkg/status, since it now believes the package is not installed. Ben
