-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:16:36AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > 1) Getting dselect (and whatever dependent listings it relies on) > consistent with the packages I have (and want) on my system. I am > afraid to turn dselect loose after selecting new packages to install for > fear it's going to remove most of what I've already chosen - fundamental > stuff in most cases. It sure says it's going to remove them.
Try using the update option in the menu. dselect's also pretty cumbersome to deal with in general, I strongly reccommend aptitude now. > 2) I don't think I have a good conceptual understanding of how to handle > package management in Debian. I've read the Apt HowTo, and parts of > other manuals to do with package management, but they are still > appearing to me as recipes of how to do things. I haven't figured out > how it all fits together. That just takes time, we were all there once. This isn't specific to packaging, just being in a new OS in general, and especially something as flexible as unix... > Once I've added the testing packages to my stable installation, how do I > keep everything up to date? That's the big question for me now. Don't. See below. > It looks like if I comment out the testing sources, the update tries to > downgrade the packages to match the stable versions. Or did the problem > of dselect trying to remove all my packages come from some other > action? I'm confused. Any conceptual help about mixed packages and > updating would be very welcome - I'm paralyzed until I figure out how to > handle this. dselect is trying to do the right thing. Mixing stable with testing or unstable is always a bad idea if you don't have intimate knowledge about the dependancies and packages in your system, and almost always a bad idea if you do. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01644.html - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+1ug4J5vLSqVpK2kRAhP9AKC7qklOcG2EGxeknwjP/Xg39FDcZACfTtYn 9iSZ9Puflvp8ICaNdAkLMsE= =PaJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
