What are the packaging frontends (dselect in particular) supposed to do when 2 sources from sources.list provide different version numbers of the same package?
I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. I generated the Packages files with dpkg-scanpackages. That went fine, so I added a "deb file:" line for the local mirror to sources.list and run dselect. In the Select phase I could see the newer versions as available. I selected them. But the Install phase ignored my local mirror, tried to download the updates from the potato archive, and failed. I noted while dselect was hitting the sources it said something like deb file:/foo/bar Release Ignored Of course, I don't have a Release file in the mirror directory. Is that necessary for it to be recognized as a worthy source? If so, how do I generate one; dpkg-scanpackages doesn't. Or is there something else wrong with what I'm trying? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
