apt-move debootstrap
Hello debian, We are using boot-floppies_3.0.18 to newly install debian on the new computer of my son. To not have to download through my slow cable connection, I have used apt-move om my own computer to convert the very big /var/cache/apt/archive to a local mirror structure. Now dbootstrap starts with getting /mirrors/debian/dists/sid/Release, and this file is not there. I have been searching all apt-* tools, some of the mailing lists and documentation but nowhere is this file mentioned. I see the real archives do have this file as well as Release files in all leaf directories. Please, can you point me somewhere I can find out how to get these Release files created. -- Thanks, -o) Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616 Netherlands _\_v
Re: FWD: Popularity-contest submission doesn't go through to apenwarr-survey@klecker.debain.org
Christian Kurz wrote: On 01-04-29 Joey Hess wrote: Anyone have a clue? Received: from myhostname.my.isp.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with +ESMTP id f3QDlYZ2018784 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:47:34 +-0600 Suddenly here the email is address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] while in the previous line: Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by myhostname.my.isp.com (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian +8.12.0.Beta7-1) id f3QDkJuS015600 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:46:19 -0600 Here it's addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I would assume that something on myhostname.my.isp.com is rewriting the email @debian.org to @klecker.debian.org. And I don't think that this localpart apenwarr-survey is available in the sub-domain klecker.debian.org but instead in the domain debian.org. So I would suggest that the configuration of this mail-server myhostname.my.isp.com will be checked to see why suddenly the rcpt-to changes. Please look at the following: $ host -v -t MX -A debian.org Query about debian.org for record types MX Found 1 address for debian.org Checking debian.org address 198.186.203.20 !!! debian.org address 198.186.203.20 maps to klecker.debian.org $ host -v -A http.us.debian.org Query about http.us.debian.org for record types A Found 4 addresses for http.us.debian.org Checking http.us.debian.org address 141.213.4.21 !!! http.us.debian.org address 141.213.4.21 maps to bigfoot.eecs.umich.edu Checking http.us.debian.org address 192.25.206.10 !!! http.us.debian.org address 192.25.206.10 maps to gluck.external.hp.com Checking http.us.debian.org address 35.9.37.225 !!! http.us.debian.org address 35.9.37.225 maps to ike.egr.msu.edu Checking http.us.debian.org address 209.10.41.242 !!! http.us.debian.org address 209.10.41.242 maps to zeus.kernel.org $ So, mail to debian.org is the same as mail to klecker.debian.org And, to mention another small problem in the same area, http.us.debian.org maps to 4 different machines. apt-get randomly selects one for each file it wants to retrieve, and I have noticed the contents of the pool of one machine is not always consistent with the Packages file from another -- Regards, -o) Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616 Netherlands _\_v
Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Hint: Read the bug page for APT to discover why!
Looking through the apt bugs., saw this one, rejected:
Bug#77054: wish: show current-upgraded versions on upgrade -u
My private solution to this is the following patch to `apt-get':
--- algorithms.cc-ORG Sat May 13 06:08:43 2000
+++ algorithms.cc Sat Sep 9 22:11:19 2000
@@ -47,9 +47,13 @@
{
// Adapt the iterator
PkgIterator Pkg = Sim.FindPkg(iPkg.Name());
+ const char *oldver = Pkg-CurrentVer ? Pkg.CurrentVer().VerStr() : -;
+ const char *newver = Pkg-VersionList ? Pkg.VersionList().VerStr() : -;
+
Flags[Pkg-ID] = 1;
- cout Inst Pkg.Name();
+ cout Inst Pkg.Name() ( oldver newver );
+
Sim.MarkInstall(Pkg,false);
// Look for broken conflicts+predepends.
This informs me about versions when doing apt-get --no-act install package.
I like this very much, and would appreciate this going into the official
apt-get command.
--
Thanks,
-o)
Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616Netherlands _\_v
Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?
Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:47:55PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:03:45PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: Happy new year to everyone! To read the changelog I have to download and install it. But I don't like to install unknown compilers on my development machines. Especially since there is no undo operation for dpkg -i. To read the changelog, you do not have to install it. Yes, this is something I want to know how to do. The Debian changelog is available through the web access to the packages, but how do I get the upstream changelog that is also part of that package [Or to make the question even more general, how do I download the package list of files and than one specific file from that list...?..] -- Thanks, -o) Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616 Netherlands _\_v
Re: Huh, gcc 2.95.3?
Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:58:04PM +0100, Matthijs Melchior wrote: To read the changelog I have to download and install it. But I don't like to install unknown compilers on my development machines. Especially since there is no undo operation for dpkg -i. To read the changelog, you do not have to install it. Yes, this is something I want to know how to do. The Debian changelog is available through the web access to the packages, but how do I get the upstream changelog that is also part of that package [Or to make the question even more general, how do I download the package list of files and than one specific file from that list...?..] dpkg-deb -x package.deb directory # and you'll have the package's files # extracted in directory/ See the manual page for more information. Yes, OK, I was expecting a method that did not require to download the full package, just the index and a specific file -- Thanks, -o) Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616 Netherlands _\_v
Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Hello! I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as possible. For now, the work will be strictly academic, but if it works out, it may evolve into future standard package manager. So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager? Something I have wished for in dpkg is a --rollback option, to undo the installation of a package and revert to the version that was installed previously, without having the original .deb available. And in the light of changed configuration files, it may not even be possible to restore a previous state by just reinstalling the old version again -- Thanks, -o) Matthijs Melchior Maarssen /\\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 346 570616 Netherlands _\_v
