Greetings,
I went over to a friends house last night and fired up his seldom- used Debian Linux 1.1 partition to install gs and ghostview for him. I thought I'd give a list of quirks I noticed even though a lot of them are probably fixed. 1) Deselect detected the new packages and attempted to upgrade everything. I actually thought this was kind of neat at first until I realized how long 82MB of stuff takes to download over a 28.8 link. 2) A bug in dpkg couldn't deal with zlib1's "Version: 1:4-6" line. I suspect a perl regexp that should be (.*?):, not (.*): but anyway that's probably been noticed & fixed in a more recent version of dpkg. I guess what I'd suggest here is that dselect should know enough to upgrade dpkg first before trying anything else. Also, this bug crashed dpkg and dselect. I didn't appreciate being kicked out of dselect so abruptly; it should handle dpkg errors, though I was pleased that it didn't lose my changes to the package selection. 3) Dselect deletes uninstalled files (ones that encountered installation errors) when it asks you "delete installed files?", so that wasted line time from my perspective. Just because dselect polices your initial package selection, it shouldn't assume that the download completed and everything will be OK. Keep aborted/incomplete .deb files unless told to purge them. 4) Deselect downloads the files in a random order (a perl hash at work here no doubt:) What it should do is a DFS on the dependency tree so that if your download is incomplete most of the files you grabbed will still install. Perhaps it should also give priority to packages in base/. -- Brian S. Julin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]