On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 05:21:23PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed Debian/PowerPC recently and found some problems, > but now I have not enough time to investigate if they are bugs > or not, so I report them to the list first. > > First, it seems dpkg-divert left several *dpkg-devert.tmp > (not *dpkg-divert.tmp!). This should be wrong. > dpkg is of 1.9.4.
Fixed in 1.9.5 or 1.9.6. It'll be available for PPC in a few days, I hope. > Second, I installed kernel-image-2.4.4 (2.4.4-1) but it failed > to boot so I removed it, but it left a link of /vmlinux to > /boot/vmlinux-2.4.4 which did not exist anymore (/boot/vmlinux-2.4.4 > was removed as expected) if I remembered correctly. > This might be wrong in two ways. > > kernel-image-2.4.4 is wrong because it failed to boot on my > PowerMac 8500 and also perhaps kernel-package might be wrong > because it left wrong link after removal if kernel-image was built > with kerne-package. The bug on kernel-image was filed two weeks ago, and I mailed -powerpc about it. I forgot to include ext2 in the kernel. It will be fixed when I have my PPC up again, this week. > (FYI, kernel-image-2.2.19 has many variants depending on prep > and so on but kernel-image-2.4.4 does not!?) There is no need for them any more. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
