Stuart Ballard replied off-list:
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:14:42PM +, Stuart Ballard wrote
> John Pearson wrote:
> >
> > I've attached a three-line awk filter that should do what's required,
> > in the event it comes up again.
> >
> > Run it as
> > # dpkg -l | reset-selections.awk | dpkg --s
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
> > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
> > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
> >
> You are one o
On Fri, 24 Dec, 1999 à 05:39:32PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
> In this discussion it may be helpful to summarize my view on dselect-dpkg:
>
> - the underlying mechanism seems to be very good (I do agree with everybody)
> - the user interface could be better
> - as a coherent tutorial the documen
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:56:31AM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
> > and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it
> > gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
> > dselect
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Andy Thomas wrote:
> I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
> and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it
> gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
> dselect, umou
I've got another question about dselect. It seems like when I go in there
and choose some more packages to "install," then tell it to install, it
gives some kind of error about /cdrom being mounted. I have to exit
dselect, umount /cdrom, then re-enter dselect, select install and off she
goes...
In this discussion it may be helpful to summarize my view on dselect-dpkg:
- the underlying mechanism seems to be very good (I do agree with everybody)
- the user interface could be better
- as a coherent tutorial the documentation is pretty bad,
and the fact that nobody from the inner debian c
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
> You are one of many, myself included, who asked similar questions
> about resetting dselect or dpkg after they created chaos.
Does the revert command 'R' do what you want?
> We only want to start all over again with the selection
On 12/23/99, Egbert Bouwman addressed "Bad points for debian (was: resetting
dpkg)":
> In the dselect man page (dd 29th november 1995) in slink you can read:
>The dselect package selection interface is confusing or even
>alarming to the new user.
> The debian grou
Egbert Bouwman wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
> > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
> > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
> >
Remember that the dependencies will kick in (though jd
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
> > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
> > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
> >
> The debian g
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote:
> Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after
> manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything
>
You are one of many, myself included, who asked similar questions
about resetting dsel
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