Re: Recent Dockyard-devel safe?

On Sunday, 16. October 2005 23:07, N. Thompson wrote:
> I tried installing dockyard-devel recently and wound up having the
> installer fail because it couldn't install ark-version-info and some
> other package.

Yes, that was happening a couple of weeks back due to a bug in the iso build 
script, caused by the huge number of packages we have these days (the script 
uses "*" in a couple of places, and the expansion causes weird things like 
"rpm: argument list too long".

This is fixed now and the current dockyard-devel image is supposed to work -- 
however, keep in mind that dockyard-devel may break at any time (it's just a 
development snapshot after all) --- if dockyard-devel doesn't work, get a 
dockyard (or 2005.2-rc3) image and upgrade packages manually.

> As an
> interesting side effect of the failed installation I couldn't boot
> Windows or Linux, my computer would boot up with a message that there
> was no operating system installed.

Hmm... The MBR definitely isn't being overwritten before you get an error 
about dependencies -- prior to checking dependencies, the only thing that 
happens is adjustments to the partition tables.
It's possible that the problem was simply caused by a missing active flag - 
AFAIK Windoze still needs that to be set to its partition.

LLaP
bero