Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > No, the three slashes are in fact correct. > > Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list > and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I > was going out of my mind. I'm not.
No; it's apparently variable. Still, the apt-move manpage did say to use a file: URI, and every time I've seen those on a Unix system to date, they've started with three slashes. That, however, may be a netscape/mozilla peculiarity; I believe the kernel considers multiple consecutive slashes to be superfluous and throws away all but one. > > Turns out you have to write the Release files by hand. > > I have never had to do that. If I comment out all lines in sources.list > except my local mirror and do dselect|update I get to see everything in > there. > I'm not sure this is the problem. I just checked your apt-move.conf > again and noticed a couple of problems: > > ARCHS="alpha arm hurd-i386 i386 m68k powerpc sparc" > Do you really have all these installed ;-) Yeah, I realized that only *after* I did a `apt-move sync' and pulled down all sorts of random crud. This is now "i386" only. > DIST=potato > This should be testing. At least, that's what your sources.list points to. > They need to be the same. Yeah; saw that at the same time; it's now `woody'. > However... > > > Things are fine now; apt-get and dselect see the package files in my > > local mirror. (I found found this after a little bit more careful > > digging through the debian-user archives.) ...where `now' is defined to mean `after I fixed the above two settings.' > ....If it ain't broke don't fix it :-) In general, I agree, but I would like to understand exactly what's going on here. I may try moving the Release files outside the mirror, commenting everything out of sources.list, and trying again. > > > BTW when I reply to your message only part of it shows up in my > > > mailer. Not sure if that is my problem or yours. > > > > I doubt this is a problem; it's probably just the way KMail works. I > > included the sources.list and apt-move.conf files as MIME attachments > > (text/plain); a lot of mailers tend to display that MIME type inline but > > not include it in replies. I know VM works that way, ISTR that > > Netscape's mailer does also. > > I guessed they were attachments #1 and #2, what I was referring to was this: > > "Any advice would be very welcome. > > Thanks, > > Richard" Oh. More attachment stuff; this is just how VM handles attachments interposed into the body of the message. I'd attached the two config files, then kept typing; VM basically considers everything after the first attachment to be an attachment, possibly of type text/plain with inline content disposition. On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It happened again about an hour ago, but I recovered by blowing away the existing copy (on the grounds that I didn't have anything to lose) and rerunning `dselect update', which recreated it correctly. What's going on here? Thanks much for your advice, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
