Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1997-01-24 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
> >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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-27 Thread Rainer Bawidamann
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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-25 Thread Bruce Perens
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 -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerpri

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-25 Thread salwen
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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-24 Thread Wayne Schlitt
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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-23 Thread Bernard Leach
[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

Re: 1.2 Upgrade Experience

1996-12-23 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
> > 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! > >