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From: Martin Grande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hello
If this is the right e-mail adress to send to, I dont't know.. there were
so many to choose from :) but I'll give it a try.
I just have
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> maintains more complex package list information than can be represented
> in dpkg's available file (especially if you have apt set to use multiple
> distributons at the same time, etc).
Yeap, pretty much.
> I find this very unsatisfactory. Yes, generatin
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason, if it's doing that, I think that's a dumb heuistic. As you can
> see, there are valid reasons for ignoring the input and not failing.
It is doing that and it has always done that.. It only fails sometimes
because the pipe fills up.
Probably will ta
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> How can I set up the new machine now to recognize these packages and
> install, either from this machine or the connected machine? Can I
> just copy over the /etc/apt/sources.list onto this machine without
> being connected? Which of the other files i
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
> I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to
> your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company.
It's common practice around here.. The pipe going out of the house is an
excellent ground. However, if you do it w
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Carlile wrote:
> I have been looking through the archive for references to the card and
> driver but all I come up with are posts about how easy it is to get this
> card running. People actually suggest this card to newbies because it is so
Dlink changed the configurat
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
> I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some
> simple built-in algorithm
It is my understanding that modern DOCSIS modems use encryption between
the cable modem and the cable head end. The motorola cybersufr brand has
been d
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:
> >deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> ^
> You're missing the terminal slash: the correct line (the one I use) is:
Which is added automatically for you by apt..
Jason
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Keith Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:16:35AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> > Now, we all use `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' on a regular
> > basis. But you're supposed to use `apt-get dist-upgrade' when moving
> > between distributions. What happens if
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Brian Murphy wrote:
> no package name was given. I tried apt-get install redcarpet but it didn't
> work. Did anyone else do this?
*lol*
Try 'apt-cache search red.*carpet', it might find it for you.
Jason
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Marc Moody wrote:
> I believe that the 530TX does use the via Rhine Chip, but the 530TX+ uses
> the realtek 8139. Strange that the plus would have such a significant
> change, but I have the 530TX+, and I though I read this when I was
> installing mine.
Correct. Further, som
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jason N. Price wrote:
> as there are a lot of dependencies on it. Without it installed, I can't
> install a lot of other things. I have tried getting it from the cd as well
> as via HTTP, but the error is the same either way. The error is:
Sounds like you might have fla
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> I've noticed a strange problem with apt-get: it downloads packages
> twice. Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm using Woody, and I've
> noticed this error for some weeks now. It seems to have been reported in
> bug report #79277, but it's
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote:
> JG> All we need is the *full headers* from the message. Our server uses VERP,
> JG> the address he is subscribed with is sent to him in the envelope sender.
>
> like this,
This address is no longer subcribed.
Jason
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote:
> UB> That will sort out their problems, as well
> UB> as ours. I am still receiving mail from
> UB> them.
>
> OK, I will try explaining to them again.
All we need is the *full headers* from the message. Our server uses VERP,
the address he is subscr
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:32:57PM -0600, Mike McNally wrote:
> > The full error is:
> > Could not create a socket - socket (93 Protocol not supported)
>
> No idea what protocol 93 is (it's not listed in /etc/protocols). FTP
> should use the tcp prot
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Teague wrote:
> I never pretended to know anything, but I find your response
> amusing, and your discussion and that of others enlightening. I
> suspected that ftp might not be faster, but did not know why.
The true answer is that there is no way one is faster than the
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Teague wrote:
> I am not a networking authority, so I asked a colleague (Mark
> Holliday) who is. He says http is optimized for relatively small
> files, mainly web pages, which are not terribly large, (what? 2 or 3
> K?) whereas ftp was designed to be optimal files th
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> itself is less for http. This makes me curious .. why would a hypertext
> transfer protocol have less overhead on file transfers for one designed
> for transferring files?
Because the design goals of FTP were never to have a low cost file
connection?
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
> > a proxy involved.
>
> why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it
> better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
> transfer.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote:
> That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get
> http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that
> http might be faster.
Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not
a proxy invo
On 4 Dec 2000, Willy Lee wrote:
> Just curious, is there any particular reason to favor http vs. ftp, or
http is faster if you are not proxied.
Jason
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jim Frey wrote:
> On running apt-get update, I get the following error listing:
Upgrade to a nemer version..
Jason
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> S Taylor wrote:
> >Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely
> >visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed
> >Where can I find "HOWTOs to configure this 'terminal', a magitronic
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Ignasi Tura wrote:
> I've grepped /usr/doc/apt for 'purge', man apt, apt --help and I haven't
> found any reference towards 'purge'!
auric{jgg}~/apt2/build/bin#man apt-get | grep -B 1 -i purge
--purge
Use purge instead of remove for anything that would
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, apt-get shouldn't be used when something's broken? I used apt-get in
> the first place, so I take it that means that apt-get didn't catch the
> problem. I know the packaging tools are much better than my rpm experiences,
> but I'd love to s
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote:
> I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box.
Thats an interesting apt quirk, just list all the packages at once:
auric{jgg}~/apt2/build/bin#./apt-get install task-helix-gnome task-helix-core
sawfish-gnome rep-gtk-gnome libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2
Readi
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Unfortunately, while source packages can be checked quite easily, they
> are not always verifiable. There is no simple mechanism for verifying
> debs *at all*. Nor even Packages.gz - and the integrity of Packages.gz
> isn't actually a guarantee of t
On 7 Nov 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Joachim> Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc'
> Joachim> another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled
> Joachim> package with the same version.
> Actually, this is by design and the reason the equivs package was
> r
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Gordon Sadler wrote:
> I followed this advice and upgraded to 1.7.1 just a few minutes ago, however
> I am still receiving this error below.
Looks like you removed debconf..
Put it back, by hand!
Jason
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> If I compile a deb-src package and install it, "apt-get upgrade" will
> over-write it with the precompiled version unless I mark my hand-rolled
> package as "hold". What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. This is how it is ment to work. You can change the
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Maybe apt should simply retry after all the other stuff got downloaded?
It can try forever, glibc always returns that :|
Jason
On 2 Nov 2000, John Conover wrote:
> Its not exactly a Debian/Linux question, but does anyone know how many
> email addresses are on the world's largest mailing list, and the OS/HW
> it runs on? Average messages per day?
Well, I can tell you that the debian.org list server has 8 subscribers
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Will Day wrote:
> > # apt-get -s install php4-mysql mysql-server
> > Inst libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 [base-config ]
> > Inst libstdc++2.10-dev [base-config ]
> > Inst g++ [base-config ]
> > Inst libc6-dev [base-config ]
> > Inst locales [base-config ]
> > Inst libc6 [base-config
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> Postfix broke with a stuck mail queue, apt-get broke again and I have just
> finished reinstalling potato on a separate drive to enable mail.
> I reckon I will stay down here for mail until I can find out how to
> repair woody 'cos there is a heap off ap
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> It seems so basic. When you say "apt-get install ..." the "plan" is clearly
> the addition of software to the system. Removal is patently "not part of the
> plan", unless explicitly acknowledged by the user.
If apt executed removals you were prompted an
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Green wrote:
> Surely a quick trip to /var/cache/apt/archives and a run of dpkg -i with
> the right package names would have fixed this, if apt-get doesn't
apt-get install with the right package names would have also fixed it, and
told you when you finally got the right
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> It seems that apt-get decided to UNINSTALL:
> o netkit-inetd
> o ipchains
> o netbase
> and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no
> network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without
> bringing in netbase
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> I recall seeing messages attributing these to the AARNET mirror,but my
> belief was that the http sites were on a round robin so that a busy site
> would redirect the load. Is this not so?.
This is a glibc bug aggrevated by your name server..
Jason
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, William Jensen wrote:
> As reported yesterday apt-get update produces errors at the end. Can anyone
> tell me and the other people experiencing this what the problem is and how
> we could fix it, or who we should inform if this isn't a user fixable problem.
> Apt-cache searc
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Thomas Halahan wrote:
>
> I have upgraded glibc to 2.1.94-3. During this process I have had
> the same problems as many. i.e.
>
> * libdb.so.3 not found
> * ldconfig disappears
>
> But now my apt (dselsct and gnome-apt) shows many unsolved
> dependencies which become ver
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> I want to move the cdrom from /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom and even though so
> noted in fstab, apt-get refuses to see anything but /cdrom to grab apps.
> Any idea how to change its config?
Stick
Acquire::CDROM::Mount "/mnt/cdrom/";
In /etc/apt/apt.conf
Ja
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
> It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means:
It means an error that is not understood by the code was generated by the
lookup. An error that is not 'name not found' or 'service not found'.
I've never seen this prior to the new libc6..
L
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Russell Davies wrote:
> anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process
> has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get
> I did notice a warning about name resolution and the new C
> library when installing the new packa
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> I'd like to install apt on RH. I don't want to install deb's on RH.
> I want only use it as it reads in /usr/share/doc/apt/offline.txt (apt-get
> update && apt-get -d dist-upgrade with state file from other, debian
> system)
>
> So, is it possibile
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> Okay, so I can't dist-upgrade because of a problem that I shouldn't work
> around because it's "A GRAVE BUG" and I don't "-really- know" what I'm
> doing -- so, what am I supposed to do?
In this case you may activate the option, however, I recommend
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joey Tsai wrote:
> Need to get 0B/2426kB of archives. After unpacking 2925kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by
> /usr/lib/libdb.so.3)
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jason Holland wrote:
> Is there anyway to bypass the size check? I didn't see anything in the man
> page. Just curious..
No, technically the file is corrupt and should not be used without that
final byte.
Jason
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
> >Anyone know WTH is up?
>
> No idea, therefore I´ve cc´ed the SOA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
>
> Judging from the ser# (292305) there was a change in the zonefile
> yesterday. As ftp.at.debian.org is still in the list at
> http://www.debian.org/dist
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jason Holland wrote:
> which is a real pain. anyone know why it fails to install because of a size
> mismatch?? a workaround for this would be nice. thanks!!
This means the resulting .deb is not the correct length. It might be
missing a byte or two and still be installable
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Russell Coker wrote:
> So I have an inet6 address on eth0 as soon as I do "modprobe ipv6". What is
> the way to ping it?
I don't think you can ping link addresses very easially. You should
install the radvd package and give your site some real IPs, possibly
following the 6t
> Well apt-get upgrade did never finish OK. It started out more or less ok,
> but after a while it could not properly configure some packages
> (gimp-manual and libpaperg (here it never accepted any paper format like
> a4 and there was no list to choose from; therefore forcing a ctrl+c and
> ther
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I did apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgrade dist-upgrade, I got the
> info about what apt wanted to remove, install and update. Then it asked
Hm. You have more packages installed than I have ever seen.. This is a bug
- can you please send me a co
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - apt-get update complains it can't resolve the above address, complains it
> can't run a stats on the earlier packages on the system, then suggests I run
> apt-get update!
Sounds like your DNS is foobar, unless you made a spelling error.
Jason
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, C. Falconer wrote:
> >I've been toying with the idea of setting up a complete local mirror for
> >all of my machines here. It wouldn't be public (at least not yet), but it
> >would cut down on my network traffic, and it would cut down on the debian
> >servers that are bei
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dave Thayer wrote:
> Potato is now stable, so you will have to change your sources.list
> accordingly. FWIW, I prefer to use the release name (i.e. 'potato")
> to avoid this kind of suprise. I had been tracking potato in its later
Yeah, but now you know that potato has bee
On 25 Jul 2000, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within helix-gnome,
> often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often, for instance my
> computer constantly beeps at me, until I push Alt+Backspace, and force
Did it beep at you only when you pres
unsubscribe
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Pete Chudykowski wrote:
> I'm running my ftp service on port other than 21. That confuses
> apt-get. Is there any way around it? I'm too lazy to edit
ftp://localost:54/debian
Read man sources.list
Jason
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>dpkg-scanpackages binarydir overridefile [pathprefix] >
>Packages
>
>binarydir is the name of the binary tree to process (for
>example, contrib/binary-i386). It is best to make this
>relative to the root of th
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> It is not this simple; in fact, I think there's an out-and-out bug.
> I'll report it when I have some time to waste.
It is a bug with whoever typed dpkg-scanpackages because they did it
wrong.
> deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free
>
> Th
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> i've just finished reading the Multicast HOWTO. my question deals
> with the mrouted tunnel i need to create. my ISP does not support
> multicast so i can't to tunnel to them. am i just out of luck with
> multicast or is there a place that sets up
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I then dist-upgraded to Potato, but now it can't get past the proxy. It
> says 'connecting to internet' (which happens to be the proxy name), but
> doesn't get any further. wget on the same machine works fine through
> the proxy.
If it says [Conn
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> > The problem is: how do I know _which_ packages are new
> > and which do I have to fetch to update my standalone mirror
> > (without keeping a second mirror at the dial-up/home-cable
> > machine).
>
> Run apt-get with the --download-only option. It
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/ potato main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ potato/non-US main
Drop the word 'dists' from both these lines.
Jason
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Damon Muller wrote:
> I have a couple of tulip-based ethernet cards (I think they are made by
> Acton, and may certainly be re-badged), one in my Debian box and one in
> my win98 box. They are connected together by an 8-port 10/100 switch
> (specifically a LanTech MINI Switch
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to
> perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above?
cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/
(or ln -s)
Fini.
Jason
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> Aahhh! That's why my realtek cards are not being installed when I boot from
> cold. In the trash with them.
Have you tried the rtl8139too driver?
These cards are nice and cheap, perfect for workstations..
Jason
On Fri, 12 May 2000, kriptic wrote:
> the other day i tried using dselect to upgrade as normal,
> this is what i saw when trying to [I]nstall
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: The package checker needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
> archive for i
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > I guess ultimately, what would be best, would be to keep track of the
> > sources that you have installed, so that you know when the sources
> > have been updated. Or have apt recompile for you.
>
> well i just don't understand why apt thinks it shou
> atp-get update<-- works fine...
> apt-get dist-upgrade <-- problems...
>
> Each time I would only get a few files, but after 15-20 tries, I seem to
> have almost everything;
> almost..
Run update again if that fails find out if you are behind one of those
defective HTTP proxies :|
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Anton Gyllenberg wrote:
> I can't get apt-get to do http authentication. It seems sources.list
> doesn't support http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ type URI:s. The manuals do
> mention
Heh this got missed, it doesn't support it.
You could add it really easially though.
Jason
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I'm behind proxy, anyone know how i can use apt-get in this case?
Yes, read the apt.conf man page.
Jason
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, paul wrote:
> It'd be nice to know what caused it. I'm leaning to hardware problems,
> as I noticed in my journals that I had some rather funny filesystem and
> data coruption problems with a similar motherboard (MVP3) and this same
> HD (Quantum 6.4 gig) last year when the
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, paul wrote:
> Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited
> with the following messages:
Usually 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' makes it go away, I dont understand how
it is possible to get into a state where that is required
Jason
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote:
> # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> # deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
>
> I did the apt-get update ... why wouldn't it show
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Mark Symonds wrote:
> So my question is, what do I do to get ssl back?
> Am I going to need to get the mod_ssl tarball?
auric{root}/usr/lib/cgi-bin#apt-cache search apache.*ssl
apache-ssl - Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support
apache-common - Support file
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> And I get the following:
> Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main wget 1.5.3-1.1
> 504 Gateway Time-out
This is an error directly from squid, there is something wrong on that
end.
Jason
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Karlin wrote:
> I'm guessing that some new configuration file might have been inserted
> during the X upgrade. Am I on the right track? Has anyone experienced
> this, or know how to fix it?
Edit things in /etc/X11/xdm - I think it was pretty obvois IIRC. Oddly, it
was
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ian Alexander wrote:
> Does dpkg --get-selections report stuff that has been installed via apt?
Yes
Jason
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> I have no experience with proxy auth. However, if I got it correctly then the
> attached /etc/apt/apt.conf has the skeleton for this to be done.
HTTP proxy authentication is very simple:
export http_proxy="http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:proxy.com:3128/"
apt..
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> silly thing downloaded to my shell, I can ftp it to my office and take
> it home on a zip disk. Once I get the "potato" directory restored on
^^
'on a Large Stack of zip disks' or maybe a CD-R or two. The recursive wget
you describe wil
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> There is no proxy involved and I can use ncftp to connect to the site so
> it's not a firewall problem. I have removed my apt.conf so it's not that.
> I also tried "Acquire::Ftp "true";" but could not find any output.
The option is Debug::Acquire::Ftp
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Ehren Wilson wrote:
> oh and the address I want is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanx
You are gettink Emails Now, Yes?
Jason
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:
> It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
> asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
> anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device,
> and how do I get its name? (Should I
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote:
> I did an apt-get update tonight, and then tried to do apt-get dist-upgrade.
> This is what I get.
Little disk space issue there.. The mirror is rerunning now.
Jason
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just installed Debian (slink) on a friend's system. His Ethernet card
> is a D-Link 220. I read the Ethernet-HOWTO to check the card's compatibility,
> and there has apparently been some success getting D-Link 200 cards to work,
The card is an ISA
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Alexander List wrote:
> Obviously, apt seems to fiddle around with mount during the upgrade
> procedure, /usr is mounted ro after the upgrade!!!
rm /etc/apt/apt.conf
Jason
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote:
> trick. But what then is the function of the apt.conf file? What am I
> missing out on? I like fiddling in conf files
You fiddled it wrong.. That config file is not ment for general use, it
does 'weird' things.
Jason
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> I believe the fix for this would be to configure apt to re-connect to
> the server every time in a pure http/1.0 stateless sort of way. However,
> there doesn't seem to be a preference for this. I have tried
> Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth 0, which had
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote:
> If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the
> following problem after the package files have been downloaded:
'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf'
Jason
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Chris R. Martin wrote:
> Forgive me, I've been out of the Debian world for a while. I'm having
> trouble figuring out the relationship between apt, dpkg, dselect, and
> "deity" (which seems to be something in development). I know what dselect
deity is APT's development co
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> There is a way to obsolete essential packages. Dpkg itself already handles
> this. If you install an essential package that conflicts with an already
> installed essential package, that package will be removed without any sort
> of --force options. This i
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote:
> There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252
> matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the
Actually 63.209.15.252 recently had some sort of mirroring problem, it
should be fixed now. Otherwise th
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gareth wrote:
> I havtried to use a line like this in the apt.conf
> http::username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port
> but nothing seemed to happen.
You used the wrong syntax..
acquire::http::proxy "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port";
Jason
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Misanthrope wrote:
> Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few
> slight difficulties...At present I am running the stable distribution, or
> slink, and I can't seem to get dselect's asp package selection method working
> with my home network
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Frank Copeland wrote:
> Since you are couching that as a question, I assume you haven't actually
> tried to do it that way. And my answer would be: I don't know. If you ever
If you NFS mount /var/cache/apt/archives on all machines APT will
magicially do the right thing.. Mak
I have written up some documents on how to use the developer DB, they are
linked from http://db.debian.org/
In particular, if anyone looses/lost their password I will be directing
them to: http://db.debian.org/password.html :>
If anyone has any questions they would like to see answered let me kn
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I am getting into some kind of loop and I need to remove perl-base
> (temporarily) but it is an essential package. The other way around this is to
> activate APT::Force LoopBreak but I don't know what that means and the apt man
> pages do not tell me what t
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
> I want to avoid the need to run update from within dselect after apt-get
> dist-upgrade by writing the lines
>
> Post-Invoke {
> "apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/apt-chace";
> "dpkg --update-avail /tmp/apt-cache";
>
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