Mailing List Archive: Debian Packages

Debian Packages

ajbarber at yahoo

Nov 15, 2002, 4:09 PM

Post #1 of 2 (1192 views)

Hello. I tried the most recent debian packages last
night and had a few problems.

First, pwgen is used in the postinst script, but it is
not required by the package. Since I didn't have the
pwgen package installed, the postinst of mythtv would
die for me.

Second, I noticed that the packages stick config files
in /etc/mythtv that I thought were supposed to be in
/usr/share/mythtv (at least according to the source
code). How does that work?

Andy

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Re: Debian Packages [ In reply to ]

Nov 15, 2002, 4:13 PM

Post #2 of 2 (1214 views)

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:09:20PM -0800, Andy Barber wrote:

> Hello. I tried the most recent debian packages last
> night and had a few problems.
>
> First, pwgen is used in the postinst script, but it is
> not required by the package. Since I didn't have the
> pwgen package installed, the postinst of mythtv would
> die for me.

I just uploaded 0.7-8 which adds the forgotten dependency on pwgen.

> Second, I noticed that the packages stick config files
> in /etc/mythtv that I thought were supposed to be in
> /usr/share/mythtv (at least according to the source
> code). How does that work?

symlinks.

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