retitle 310801 [Release notes] no working aptitude on woody hppa/mips/mipsel thanks On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:35:30PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote: > but it doesn't include aptitude at this stage. > > It seems to me that either: > (a) aptitude should be built for Woody on all Sarge architectures, and > included in 3.0r6; or > > (b) on those architectures where aptitude isn't available (ie, mips(el)) > the release notes should provide alternative instructions on > upgrading (eg, using apt-get cautiously, or perhaps doing enough > of the upgrade to pull in aptitude from Sarge then using aptitude).
Woody g++ is not able to build aptitude on hppa, mips and mipsel. Since woody packages need to build with woody g++, there is no possibility to fix that bug in woody, unfortunately. > I'm sure that I can figure out some way to upgrade this system to Sarge > even if neither of those are done (I've backported enough packages myself > for one thing; and done Debian upgrades since Bo without using aptitude), > but in the interests of accurate documention it seems something worth > addressing. We are aware of this bug and are considering what alternatives to propose. So far, the best alternative we have is to ask mips/el users to do: apt-get update apt-get install aptitude aptitude -f dist-upgrade Would that work for you ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
