On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, j.chitte wrote:
> Very clever you quote the man page. Do you really think I have not
> read that if I intend to use --root= option?
>
> > As there are no package descriptor files under /mnt/mtd, then of
> course it
> > will give an error!
>
> Yes of course it will. That was my intention. And if it actually told
> me what the error was I would be getting somewhere!
>
>
> >Repeat after me: There is no package management
> >in the TSLinux image :-)
>
> Repeat after me: " I intend to change that to suit my needs."
>
> One of the more agreeable contributors here pointed out that there
> was basic dpkg on TS and it may do what I wanted. I am now working on
> doing that. I dont need smart comments or quotes from man pages.
>
> Now if dpkg was capable of something more intellegent than "an error"
> I may be able to move ahead.
Ok sorry for being obtuse. My best guess is tha the he error is the
absence of the package data files.
> I have not been able to find any info on
> setting up dpkg . The program files seem present on TS but no config.
> (Neither does it seem set up on the "full" debian image.)
I do not believe that TS used Debian to setup the on-board TS image.
I suspect they built it from scratch.
> If you have some information on that it would be welcome. Sarcastic
> comments about what is not possible or what is not worth doing and I
> never intented to do, like stripping down debian , is really pretty
> pointless.
>
> It may bolster your ego but I think the list could do without the
> noise.
Good luck with your project.
Jim
> > >
> > > some more work is needed since dpkg is not configured there. If
> I try
> > > it on debian directly, it fails with a unspecified error. If I
> rerun
> > > even with "insanelyverbose" debugging I dont get a jot more info
> > > about the problem.
> > >
> > > :root# dpkg --debug=2000 -i perl
> > > dpkg: error processing perl (--install):
> > > cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > perl
> > >
> > > hmm, more like --debug=insanelyterse
> > >
> > > looks like I need to manually rebuild dpkg with debugging turned
> ON.
> > >
> > > seems odd this is not the default on an fs image proposed for
> > > development use.
> > >
> > > :?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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