Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-30 Thread Andy Mortimer
Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > grin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for > > thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". > > Agreed! BZ to its author (Andy Mortimer, I think). > > > But while fro

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > I don't understand your response. next time I won't answer after 4:30am :-] > > > > For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in 'hamm/hamm' but only > > > > in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. > > > > > > Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi peter! I don't understand your response. > > > For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in 'hamm/hamm' but only > > > in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. > > > > Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386. > > (there's a link from one step down to binary-i386) Where? I just scoped

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not > > using a full mirror. For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in > > 'hamm/hamm' but only in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. Seems > > that it looks for the files in the wrong

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Peter! > Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not > using a full mirror. For instance I don't have "Packages.gz" in > 'hamm/hamm' but only in 'hamm/hamm/binary-i386'. Same to others. Seems > that it looks for the files in the wrong directory... Packages.gz is suppo

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread grin
On 24 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed > > to use it through NFS. > > I am using it succesfully via NFS against a mirror of Hamm. Well, perhaps -- I cannot tell really -- it's related to that I'm not using a full mirror. For i

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
grin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for > thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". Agreed! BZ to its author (Andy Mortimer, I think). > But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed > to

[Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-24 Thread grin
Hello, The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". But while from the local disk mirror it worked flawlessly, I failed to use it through NFS. I have a partial mirror of hamm on the NFS, containing only the di