Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Personally, I have stopped using all the dselect methods in : favour of the apt method for dselect. Absolutely! We've put apt on every machine in sight, and it's amazing how much different dselect seems with apt-get layered between it and dpkg.

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I think it's critical that we at least remove the horrid Ben prompts asking you your block device for your CD-ROM, or at Ben least make an intelligent guess and provide a default. There was a question in the local Linux users'

problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread joost
abstract: there might be a serious problem involving dselect and hamm's new distribution format that threatens to make Debian 2.0 cd's unusable. Hi, I've been doing some tests lately with a harddisk with a full mirror of hamm-i386. Apart from keeping my main home machine up to date with it, I

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not great, but not as disastrous as may seem). Personally, I have stopped using all the dselect methods in favour of the apt method for dselect. However, I

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Umm. I don't know how to say this tactfully. I shall Manoj try. It may be better, I think, in this and other tasks Manoj (like modifying dpkg), that the new author be one able to Manoj grok the original. *grin* No,

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 2 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Shell scripts should generally be mechanically transformable to Perl, and I have had a look at this one, though not trivial, it is certainly eminently doable. The question is, should we be doing it at this late stage in the game? Well, if it is

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Johnie Ingram
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Hi, When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having Manoj stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not Manoj great, but not as disastrous as may seem). Actually its a problem not because stable is hardcoded, but

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Johnie == Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johnie Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj Hi, When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having Manoj stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not Manoj great, but not as disastrous as may

Re: problem with dselect and the dists hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 11:42:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Oh, I see. Well, that is even easier to fix ;-) A simple search and replace should work, I think, from a perusal of the script. Yes, but please may someone *do* it, and do it now! It's IMHO the only thing keeping me from