Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-08 Thread john
Dale Scheetz writes: You can't ever remove A. Systems pre-split must always be upgradable to systems after the split. They would still be upgradable: they'd just revert to what I understand to be the present behavior: A vanishes. But, ok. Doesn't necessarily mean that this isn't a workable

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I think you need to install the new nfs-server package. Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... maybe we need some sort of transitional-recommends field? Something that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even more pain to dselect users,

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... maybe we need some sort of transitional-recommends field? Something that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even more pain to dselect users, or something),

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread john
Mark W. Eichin wrote: Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... maybe we need some sort of transitional-recommends field? Something that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even more pain to dselect users, or something), but noticed on an

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 7 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this? A_1.0-0.1 is going to split into B and C. So you create a dummy A_1.0-0.2 package which depends on B and C and upload it along with B and C. Anyone who upgrades and has A will get it upgraded to A_1.0-0.2, which will pull in B and

Re: Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Jamey Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you need to install the new nfs-server package. Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... maybe we need some sort of transitional-recommends field? Something that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
M == M Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can Ben enjoy it! M this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not M only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange M sendmail for smail