Hello, i'm a new Debian convert. I have been using the ftp method of dselect to install and update Debian 1.1b on a few machines. I have a few questions and comments on the installation/maintenance procedure.
In all i am very happy with the quality of the Debian distribution. The installation went very smoothly, and most of the few bugs/hickups i found have since been fixed. The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing file, and it fails. This in turn causes some dependencies to fail. For example, the Packages file in unstable/ currently thinks that the available version of xforms is 0.80j-2, but the file present in the unstable/binary/x11 directory is identified as version 0.80j-3. A couple of packages are missing some of the install scripts. For example sudo. Here is the installation error. I guess this should be directed to the maintainer of the sudo package? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting up sudo ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing sudo (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The default system init scripts have two shortcomings in my mind. kerneld should be started before ANYTHING else happens, with the possible exception of a root filesystem check. The reason for this is that it may be needed to load binary-format modules, or md-personalities, etc. I had my system lock up during boot because i have swap on a raid0 md device, and i compiled raid0 as a module. Also, "mdadd -ar" doesnt work. The mdtools man pages are wrong. The workaround is to mdadd and mdrun each md-device individually. All in all i am very happy to have discovered the Debian distribution. Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
