On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 02:08 -0700 1998-07-20, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >is dpkg --root=newroot --force-depends -i packages.deb correct ? > > cd $newroot && dpkg ... (dpkg uses chroot, but it doesn't chdir to where > the new root is first)
And on top of that does not strip down the path of the admin scripts. So that won't do the trick. > The dependence on ldso is only for 'ldconfig' on powerpc (the latest ld.so > source package will build just 'ldconfig' on powerpc and alpha). If you > have a ldconfig binary already (these are usually statically linked), it is > safe to ignore the libc6 pre-depends on ldso. > > I intend to build a new glibc with some code to handle lchown/chown on > kernels with the new behavior and the old behavior (there is code in glibc > to handle this for i386, but not powerpc, the code for i386 is actually > architecture independent, all that is necessary is to copy it over to the > powerpc sysdeps dir and edit syscalls.list). When I do that, I will build > and upload ldso as well. Wow - I didn't know it was possible. I also didn't know it was a problem but that's probably because both the libc and I originate in 2.1.10x kernels. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
