Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:00:56PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Paul == Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Please check the BTS for apt-move, this is discussed Paul externsively. Apparently it's a (for me non-obvious) bug in Paul bash. Why not change the ( and ) to {

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-09 Thread Brian May
Paul == Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Please check the BTS for apt-move, this is discussed Paul externsively. Apparently it's a (for me non-obvious) bug in Paul bash. Why not change the ( and ) to { and } respectively? At least this way, it will work with potato...

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote: On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz How about a bug report then? You did run apt-move fsck

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote: I dunno about the first, but I have seen the second problem. In my case, it was caused by a bug in dpk-scanpackages (from dpkg-dev); see bug #51479 in BTS. apt-move does not use

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Sep 07 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: It's a bug in bash. You may work around it by setting ash as your /bin/sh shell instead of bash. I'm using two boxes here, one with potato and another (my guinea pig) with woody. I'm seeing the problem above on the machine with

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: apt-move does not use dpkg-scanpackages (it used to, but not any more.) Actually apt-move does use dpkg-scanpackages (and dpkg-scansources), but it caches their results so they're never run twice on the same package. This

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: This occurs when apt-move first moves the packages in, which is why you m= ust never move packages in by hand (at least not without doing an fsck later). my apologies.. I was under the

OT: Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:04:29PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: my apologies.. I was under the impression that the new method used dpkg -I magic. dpkg-scanpackages actually calls dpkg-deb -I :) bah.. the bug was said to be in dpkg-scanpackages -- Michael Beattie

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid May be you are more lucky than me with http and squid. It tokk me several month to find out, why apt-get has problems with MD5 checksums on all my packages. Yesterday I found out that I have to

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Herbert Xu wrote: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz How about a bug report then?

apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I wanted to give apt-move a try: ~# dpkg --status apt-move Package: apt-move Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 160 Maintainer: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 4.1.9 Unfortunately I get only syntax errors: ~# apt-move /usr/bin/apt-move:

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Mika Fischer
On Thu, 07 Sep at 16:59 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I wanted to give apt-move a try: Unfortunately I get only syntax errors: ~# apt-move /usr/bin/apt-move: line 122: syntax error near unexpected token `(' What am I doing wrong? I guess nothing. I had the same problem a few weeks ago and

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Mika Fischer wrote: On Thu, 07 Sep at 16:59 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I wanted to give apt-move a try: Unfortunately I get only syntax errors: ~# apt-move /usr/bin/apt-move: line 122: syntax error near unexpected token `(' What am I doing wrong? I guess

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andreas Tille wrote: I wanted to give apt-move a try: Unfortunately I get only syntax errors: ~# apt-move /usr/bin/apt-move: line 122: syntax error near unexpected token `(' It's a bug in bash. You may work around it by setting ash as your /bin/sh shell instead of bash. My current

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Steve Robbins
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz files for me. I dunno about the first, but I have seen

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Peter S Galbraith schrieb: My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every single deb file I have For my archive it was to late: 19M /home/pub/debian That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid instead ... ciao, 2ri -- Note that there are two possible