On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Of course this is not at all true, the package files are generated
directly from the .deb files daily they are never wrong, if they were then
our tools would stop working!
While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't always
Jason Gunthorpe writes:
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't always
work out that way. My experience has been that many problems experienced
by our users, and much of the fault on broken CDs have been the result
of out-of-sync
First I want to thank everyone for their replies.
Second I want to appologize for my incorrect phrasing of the subject line.
Several people have pointed out that there are very nice packages that
deal with dependencies, while others pointed out that the other ored
elements satisfied the
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all
references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages.
As the Packages file is the weak link in the distribution method, I
decided to interrogate the actual packages
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all
references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages.
As the Packages file is the weak link in the distribution
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:,
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS The most interesting problem looks like ppp, for which there isn't
DS a package.
This looks like a problem in your script, I would say.
http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/base/ppp.html shows it, and I
can happily download it from
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
Suggests: field information and deterines several things.
You do know we have a packages file, don't you? And you do
Dale Sheetz writes:
...
Package not in archives Package which depends on
Package not in archives
...
tclx emacspeak
tclx74
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
giflib3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev libfnlib-dev
The full dependencies for these is more like:
libungif3g-dev | giflib3g-dev
Basically,
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
Suggests: field information and deterines several things.
You do realize that is why we have a
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
Dale Sheetz writes:
...
Package not in archives Package which depends on
Package not in archives
...
tclx
On 21 Jan 1999, Jim Pick wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
giflib3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev libfnlib-dev
The full dependencies for these is more like:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds
and
collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
Suggests: field information and deterines
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