Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > [snip] > > > Unfortunately I don't have time to do another fresh install, so > > > unfortunately > > > due to the non-standard install method (which sounds like it w

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and > > it will usually not do "the right thing". > > It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later > version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Richard Jones
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: [snip] > > > > Well a few problems were caused by me not deleting the old packages from the > > tree when I had moved across new ones. Also a few problems were caused > > by packages that had been fixed but hadn't

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and > it will usually not do "the right thing". It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the directory

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > Dwarf said: > > > > If you are using dselect to do the install you will find many things > > broken by the method you used. The principle thing that you broke, by > > integrating new packages in by hand in the "Packages" files. This file is > > what

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-09 Thread Richard Jones
> On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've > > been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware > > and > > two versions of red-hat. All in all I'm very pleased with Debian (and I am > >

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've > been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware and > two versions of red-hat. All in all I'm very pleased with Debian (and I am > especially attract

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Regarding the problem of angband depending on a later version of libc than is there in the stable directory: angband is in the non-free area, and was released after the developer (yours truly) moved over to the newer library in the unstable section. The angband release, then, is su

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > List of problems: > > You should probably report some of these as bugs using the bug tracking > system. > I figured I would get some feedback first, as due to the non-standard method of grabbing the 1.2.1 tree I figured some of the problems were due to my inco

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
> List of problems: You should probably report some of these as bugs using the bug tracking system. > - DOSEMU suggest fdos but cannot find it. > - xemeraldia, angband, dungeon and mikmod expected a libc5 greater than the > one I apparently had (>=5.4.17-1 I think) I've fixed xemeraldia. Versi

Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware and two versions of red-hat. All in all I'm very pleased with Debian (and I am especially attracted by debian's general design philosophies), however