> And, as an added note, if you edit the sources.list created by the installer > manually, off course the local package lists are still from stable. The > obvious thing to do is an `apt-get update`, but if you want to use tasksel > this is not enough (the tasks are quite weird), so you will have to run > dselect and choose 'update'. Anyone know why this is?
I believe tasksel uses /var/lib/dpkg/available to see what there is. It seems dselect's update is the easiest, but you could also use "dpkg --update-avail" and "dpkg --merge-avail", which would have to be called for each of the "Packages" files downloaded by apt-get. (update-avail for the first, merge-avail for each of the rest.) I've recently been using aptitude, and I'm really impressed. I doubt I'll ever go back to dselect now, and aptitude also gives you access to the tasks... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
