On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
Still, the Packages files should only be removed after no software in
our stable distribution depends on it. If you remove the Packages file
from unstable now you will break apt-proxy (and perhaps other tools
too).
Well,
Hello!
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 05:16:15AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:05, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
That will also break rsyncing them, which saves a lot.
Let's just keep pestering gzip upstream to include the rsyncable patch.
...
I want to second this, as the
i'm not 100% certain that it's related but for the last week or so, i've
been unable to run apt-get update on any of my home machines. what i
get is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [09:01:52] ~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://siva.taz.net.au unstable/main Packages [2097kB]
Get:2 http://siva.taz.net.au
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
Still, the Packages files should only be removed after no software in
our stable distribution depends on it. If you remove the Packages file
from unstable now you will break apt-proxy (and perhaps other tools
too).
Does
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:15:14AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
pbuilder does seem to require downloading Packages, not Packages.gz.
Why? Is this a debootstrap bug?
debootstrap downloads Packages.bz2, Packages.gz, or Packages in order
of preference, depending on which are listed in the Release file.
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:30:13AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
debootstrap downloads Packages.bz2, Packages.gz, or Packages in order
of preference, depending on which are listed in the Release file.
I: Retrieving
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:47:26AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
The release file at:
http://snoopy.apana.org.au:8081/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Release
Wrong Release file. You want debian/dists/unstable/Release.
contains:
5fae015d924f72c2568bbc55cd1ee887 7822376
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:06:47AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease
to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their
place (actually, if you look carefully, they're already being generated).
Le Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:21:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
Then apt, or debian-cd, needs to be fixed. *shrug*
Huh. debian-cd can just uncompress them, but file: uris are a bit of a
pickle.
debian-cd uses apt (with file uris) to get a handle on the mirror.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:05, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
That will also break rsyncing them, which saves a lot.
Let's just keep pestering gzip upstream to include the rsyncable patch.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:05:10AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:06:47AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease
to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their
place (actually,
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:05:10AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:06:47AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease
to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages
* Anthony Towns
| Presuming things continue to work in unstable, the same change will be
| made to testing in a few weeks. Similarly, the Contents-*.gz files for
| unstable will probably be switching to .bz2 in the not too distant future.
This will break debian-installer. It is probably easy to
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, it was written:
Hello world,
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease
to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their
place (actually, if you look carefully, they're already being generated).
Sources.bz2 files are
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
This will break apt, as it doesn't look for compressed versions when using
file uris.
Then apt, or debian-cd, needs to be fixed. *shrug*
There's no need to Cc me, even when I bounce things and possibly lose
my M-F-T header.
Cheers,
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
This will break apt, as it doesn't look for compressed versions when using
file uris.
Then apt, or debian-cd, needs to be fixed. *shrug*
Huh. debian-cd can just uncompress them, but
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:34:48 -0500 (CDT)
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, it was written:
Hello world,
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will
cease to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated
in their place
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello world,
In a couple of days uncompressed Packages files for unstable will cease
to be generated, and bzip2'ed Packages files will be generated in their
That will also break rsyncing them, which saves a lot.
Packages, Sources and Contents files only have
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote:
If its compressed its all or nothing.
nope. you can append compressed data to the end of a gzip file, and gunzip
will cope.
Heh. What part of There's no need to Cc me is so unclear, I wonder?
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:01:29PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Using http range transfers its possible to only download a portion of the
packages file if its uncompressed, this method could have been used along
with a package
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