Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread john
Dale Scheetz writes: > You can't ever remove A. Systems "pre-split" must always be upgradable to > systems after the split. They would still be upgradable: they'd just revert to what I understand to be the present behavior: A vanishes. But, ok. > Doesn't necessarily mean that this isn't a workab

Re: Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Jamey Sharp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think you need to install the new nfs-server package. > > Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... > maybe we need some sort of "transitional-recommends" field? Something > that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causin

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 7 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How about this? > > A_1.0-0.1 is going to split into B and C. So you create a dummy A_1.0-0.2 > package which depends on B and C and upload it along with B and C. Anyone > who upgrades and has A will get it upgraded to A_1.0-0.2, which will pull in >

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread john
Mark W. Eichin wrote: > Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... > maybe we need some sort of "transitional-recommends" field? Something > that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even > more pain to dselect users, or something), but noticed on

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: > Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... > maybe we need some sort of "transitional-recommends" field? Something > that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing > even more pain to dselect users, or someth

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> I think you need to install the new nfs-server package. Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... maybe we need some sort of "transitional-recommends" field? Something that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing even more pain to dselect users,

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "M" == M Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can Ben> enjoy it! M> this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not M> only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange M> sendmail f

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-03 Thread M . Dietrich
> Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can enjoy > it! this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange sendmail for smail without any problem. ok, it trashed my nfs, but this may be a packaging problem