On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:53:51PM -0600, Mike wrote: > I have been using debian for several years now and I think it is the best > Linux distribution. It's just such a shame that all the people actually > associated with it are such jerks. This was most definitely not a user error. > I even put in the bug report the exact command I ran and the exact output. I > also stated what I had in my sources list which is what is in a default > stable install. I have since worked around the issue, but that does not mean > that the problem was user error. There was and as far as I know still is a > problem with a stock stable install if you want to install bind9. If you > don't feel like supporting bind9 for stable then pull it out, but it > certainly broken at this point.
The most likely situation is a broken mirror, if there's nothing on hold on your machine... The package is certainly fine in the archive. lamont Stock stable system: % apt-get -ud install bind9 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: adduser ifupdown iputils-ping libdns16 libisc7 libisccc0 libisccfg0 liblwres1 libwrap0 net-tools netbase netkit-inetd tcpd Suggested packages: liblocale-gettext-perl dnsutils bind9-doc iproute dhcp3-client dhcp-client ppp The following NEW packages will be installed: adduser bind9 ifupdown iputils-ping libdns16 libisc7 libisccc0 libisccfg0 liblwres1 libwrap0 net-tools netbase netkit-inetd tcpd 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 1272kB/1929kB of archives. After unpacking 5554kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]