>i've updated dpkg-ftp to 1.4.3 and now i can't seem to download any >more files. this is a typical output of what i get (tried it with a >few different packages): > i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the download directory as opposed to 1.4.2 when it was hardcoded. so one needs to setup the access mode again and after that everything will work just fine. shouldn't this be done automatically when installing the package? i think it should. maybe we should consider this a bug.
--alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
