Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > grin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for > > thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". > > Agreed! BZ to its author (Andy Mortimer, I think). > > > But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed > > to use it through NFS. > > I am using it succesfully via NFS against a mirror of Hamm.
I wrote it using an NFS mirror, so I hope it isn't anything fundamental ... > > I have a partial mirror of hamm on the NFS, containing only the > > directories you see below: > > > > I set it up to use NFS mount in fstab, entered the dirs (hamm/binary-i386, > > contrib/binary-i386, non-free/binary-i386 and non-us/hamm), and update > > worked fine. After selecting I went on to [I]nstall, but it told me > > OK, just curious here -- what did you enter non-us/hamm as -- your > local arcive? This is not related to your problems, but I was > surprised that I was only asked for main, contrib, non-free, and local > -- no mention of non-us. File a bug. Wishlist, for preference. But you're right, this should be an option. (I had a rather dodgy setup, so I always used Custom, and it just never occurred to me, even though I'm a Brit ...) > > "Warning: package XXXXXX, version X.Y-Z not available for installation. > > Skipping." > > I don't know about this, but ... It means that the package has a filename in the available file, but the file can't be found. (Often the messages in /var/log/dpkg-mountable are more useful; as a general rule, the messages on the screen give the effect, those in the log give some hint as to the cause). > > and some > > > > "Error: package XXXXXX does not have a filename! Skipping." > > this sounds like bug#8054 against dpkg-mountable. [...] I agree with this synopsis. ;) > Andy, do you think that bug#8054 will be resolved prior to the release > of hamm? Do you need someone to help debugging? Um ... yes. Well, that's not the whole story ... I wrote dpkg-mountable when I was at Uni, and had a good fast NFS mirror of the distribution. Since I left, I haven't really had any mirror available at all, and I've only installed a few packages, all by hand. (Yes, I do have a CD-ROM drive, but it doesn't seem to like my motherboard and I'm too lazy to sort it out). So, I hardly ever use it, and I can't really test it. I guess what I really need are some brave volunteers to take alpha- and beta-level code and give it a whirl, so any victims^H^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteers are more than welcome to come forward. I guess I really /ought/ to fix it for Hamm ... Thanks, Andy -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- The illusion is deep, it's as deep as the night, I can tell by your tears you remember it all. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .