> >My suggestion to the debian team would be to add a feature to dselect
> > that would flag certain packages as 'on hold', install as much as
> > possible, then go back and try to install the failed packages again. The
> > dependencies are all correct, but order of installing makes a differenc
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it
> retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing
> a major upgrade).
Does the actual (1.4?) dselect/dpkg sort t
I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it
retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing
a major upgrade).
Thanks
Bruce
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I just upgraded to 1.2 and had a similar experience. It took a little
time to iron things out but now everything (with the possible
exception of amslatex) is working OK.
First of all, thanks everyone for a remarkable package of software.
Summary of constructive comments:
1. Many packages can
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> But before I get
> to any of that, I want to say "thanks".
Ditto.
> While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
> failed to install. [ but they installed correctly if you
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
> > While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
> > failed to install. The result of this was that after the first
>When I first installed Debian, this really spooked me as well. I
> managed to watch the messages as they fl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've just completed an upgrade to Debian 1.2, and would like to
> relate some details of the experience in the hopes that it might
> help others who get stuck as I did. I also have some suggestions
> for the maintainers at the end of this message. But before I get
> to
>
> While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
> failed to install. The result of this was that after the first
> round of attempted installations of the new/updated packages, the
> ftp access method for dselect no longer worked.
>
> This was very disconcerting!
>
>
I've just completed an upgrade to Debian 1.2, and would like to
relate some details of the experience in the hopes that it might
help others who get stuck as I did. I also have some suggestions
for the maintainers at the end of this message. But before I get
to any of that, I want to say "thank
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