Re: How to handle new packages

1996-06-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Preston writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"): > [Ian Jackson:] > > If you just want to tell dselect about it, rather than installing it, > > you can say `dpkg --update-avail foobar*.deb', but it seems rather > > silly just to do this by hand :-). &

Re: How to handle new packages

1996-06-03 Thread Steve Preston
>>>>> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian C. White writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"): >> > As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine >> > the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever

Re: How to handle new packages

1996-05-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian C. White writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"): > > As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine > > the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else. > > > > Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the

Re: How to handle new packages

1996-05-31 Thread Brian C. White
> As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine > the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else. > > Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb file. > But now what? The Packages file doesn't know about the new package. > > I know I could ins

How to handle new packages

1996-05-30 Thread Steve Preston
As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else. Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb file. But now what? The Packages file doesn't know about the new package. I know I could install it using