Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-24 Thread Dima
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: ... > Have you tried this one? Works for me (dpkg-ftp 1.4.9). I think so [1]. It works now, thanks. [1] What happened is new Packages.* files made it crosslink before packages themselves did. So, I was getting heaps of "no such file OR directory" messages during install

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dima wrote: > Bruce Perens wrote: > > Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect: > > > > Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable > > > > Distributions to get: main contrib non-free > > ( this should probably go to developers list ) > > Bruce, it doesn't w

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Bruce Perens
You probably saw the messages about this already: > Use debian as the Debian directory, and these distributions: > dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free This is a bug. Developers are conversing about why it is happening. Bruce -- Can you get your operating s

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Andy Dougherty
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote: > > > Bruce Perens writes: > > > Did you tell it your distributions were "dists_unstable_main"? That > > should > > > be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing. > > > > No, I told it "dists/unstable/main". And after telling it, it went > > and veri

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Dima
Bruce Perens wrote: > Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect: > > Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable > > Distributions to get: main contrib non-free ( this should probably go to developers list ) Bruce, it doesn't work. It'll either find packages files during Access a

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Darin Johnson
> By the way, why are you installing "unstable"? That's for developers only. > If you don't really know what you are doing, it's bound to mess up your > system. Because I need to build 2.1 kernels. I know what I'm doing, except for perl. I thought it would be quicker to ask then waste half a

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Darin Johnson wrote: > Bruce Perens writes: > > Did you tell it your distributions were "dists_unstable_main"? That should > > be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing. > > No, I told it "dists/unstable/main". And after telling it, it went > and verified that they exis

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Darin Johnson
Bruce Perens writes: > Did you tell it your distributions were "dists_unstable_main"? That should > be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing. No, I told it "dists/unstable/main". And after telling it, it went and verified that they existed. Then it went and grabbed the list of packages. Onl

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect: Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable Distributions to get: main contrib non-free By the way, why are you installing "unstable"? That's for developers only. If you don't really know what you are doing, it's bound to mess up your system.

Re: Dselect failure

1997-09-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Did you tell it your distributions were "dists_unstable_main"? That should be a space, not an underbar. Just guessing. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL