On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > I am now on an Intel platform, and my dpkg says: > > >Package: netbase > >Priority: standard > >Section: base > >Installed-Size: 1069 > >Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Architecture: i386 > >Version: 3.16-7 > >Replaces: netstd (<< 3.00) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Depends: tcpd, libc6 (>= 2.1) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Suggests: cpp, debconf > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Conflicts: xinetd (<= 2.2.1-8), debconf (<< 0.2.34) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/netbase_3.16-7.deb > >Size: 503568 > >MD5sum: 4f694d71f17a771d106d751caf37078c > >Description: Basic TCP/IP networking binaries > > In order to make use of the network you need a few tools to > > configure it. This package contains all the necessary tools > > to configure the networking interfaces, to setup the routing > > tables and to start other services using the inetd server. > > Why is that, generally speaking, powerpc and intel packages have > different dependencies? > I would say that this is version skid then, Intel had the dependency problem for a couple of weeks.
Obviously PPC netbase is older than PPC netstd (and Intel netbase). Once the version skid resolves the problem should therefore clear up. -- Daniel Taylor Senior Test Engineer Digi International [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open systems win.
