In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it > retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing > a major upgrade).
Does the actual (1.4?) dselect/dpkg sort the packages before installing? I installed with dselect/dpkg 1.2.x and had the same problems: libc wasn't installed first, several other packages couldn't install (e.g. perl). Bye ... Rainer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]