On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:43:17PM +0100, Patrik Weiskircher wrote: > > > >> So in part it is my fault - I should have checked more carefully if it > >> gets installed. But I do not see any reason why the pppoeconf package > >> should not depend on the pppoe package - as far as I know you can't do > >> anything with pppoeconf without pppoe. > > > > The only binary in pppoeconf is pppoe-discovery, which is part of > > ppp package. Then there is no reason to have dependency with > > pppoe package. I'm curious to see why you need another binary. > > I think I know why it didn't work for me. > I didn't have pppoe support in the kernel at first..
Do you use custom kernel ? Because pppoe module is enabled in Debian kernels. > Now I just looked into the pppoeconf script and discovered this: > if test -x /usr/sbin/pppoe-discovery && test -e /proc/net/pppoe ; then > kernel_pppoe=1 > DISCOVERY_PROGRAM=pppoe-discovery > else > DISCOVERY_PROGRAM=pppoe > fi > export DISCOVERY_PROGRAM > > As I didn't have /proc/net/pppoe it did a fallback to pppoe, which I didn't > have installed either... as this error case is not checked it just.. did > something undefined, I guess. > > Maybe a better solution would be: > if test -x /usr/sbin/pppoe-discovery && test -e /proc/net/pppoe ; then > kernel_pppoe=1 > DISCOVERY_PROGRAM=pppoe-discovery > else > if [ ! test -x /usr/bin/pppoe ]; then > echo "Please enable pppoe support in the kernel or install the pppoe" > echo "Package". > exit 1 > fi > DISCOVERY_PROGRAM=pppoe > fi > export DISCOVERY_PROGRAM > > Or something similar. Thanks for your idea, I will revise that in next release (FYI, not before Etch release). Regards, -- Gregory Colpart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG:1024D/C1027A0E Evolix - Informatique et Logiciels Libres http://www.evolix.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
