Since I don't know the answer to this one I'll cc debian-boot and debian-cd in the hope somewhere there can answer this.
Wichert. Previously Paul Stoeber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:43:57PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Are you running rpc.statd on the client? > > That makes locking work. Thank you very much. > > > statd and lockd aren't on woody_netinst-20020416-powerpc.iso. > Will they be on the stable woody installation CD? > Maybe they should because the installer expressly supports > installation to an NFS root. > They'll also have to be in basedebs.tar, so that dpkg > can run after the second boot. (I just downloaded > basedebs.tar from ftp.de.debian.org. They're missing.) > > > Let me restate the argument I've got left for my case: > > Some users may want to use an NFS server with broken locking > when they don't have enough control over it to fix it. > > Reserving one directory name for the lockfile only would make > that easy (a tiny local filesystem can be mounted there, a ramdisk > for example), and it would leave dpkg essentially unchanged > (just "/var/lib/dpkg/lock-dir/lock" or similar > instead of "/var/lib/dpkg/lock"). > -- _________________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
