[x86-64] Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] broken packages : util-linux && coreutils

[denis r]

Its  SO serious to me too !!

I just didnt realize it was missing, untill  i've rebooted !!!

What the heck ? How could anyone forget to include that into the package ??

On 7/18/05, Michal Schmidt <xschmi00 at stud.feec.vutbr.cz> wrote:
> denis r wrote:
> > util-linux is broken : missing dmesg
> 
> I too have amd64 and the same problem. Also /sbin/getty is missing,
> which is more serious for me. I tried compiling util-linux from the
> source package. I noticed that all the utilities compile successfully,
> but for some reason dmesg and getty were not put into the resulting
> *.deb package.
> After more investigation I found this in the package's debian/control :
> 
> ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM),linux)
> [...]
> BINFILES  += sys-utils/dmesg
> SBINFILES += disk-utils/{blockdev,raw} mount/pivot_root login-utils/agetty
> UBINFILES += disk-utils/fdformat
> USBINFILES = sys-utils/readprofile disk-utils/elvtune # disk-utils/setfdprm
> endif
> 
> So it only puts these utilities into the package if DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM
> equals "linux". However, on my system it is "linux-gnu".
> I don't know what's the proper way to fix it.
> 
> Michal
>