Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this: > > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints > > the entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with

logging dpkg/dselect activity [was Re: Mirrors et al. ]

1996-05-01 Thread Lukas Nellen
Until Ian has the spare time to include activity logging in dpkg/dselect, I do the following: I use dselect to decide which packages I want to install remove. To do the actual installation and removal from the command line using something like dpgk -iGROEB development/binary non-free/bina

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread Rick Macdonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a log of dselect/dpkg errors? When I run a big install job, > I see things like this: > > xntp-doc not configured because it requires web browser > > go past on the screen. I wish they were saved in a file somewhere > so that I need not (try to) write t

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Rick> I asked about this weeks ago. Uncharacteristicly if this list, the Rick> query got no response. Hopefully this time...! dpkg activity logging is on Ian J's wish list, but the poor fellow has quite some things on his plate, so don't expect it before Debian 1.2 (ie roundabout August). A

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread Christian Hudon
On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this: > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints the > entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with the > 'skipping deselected package foo', or 'package b

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread Erick Branderhorst
More info on dpkg / dselect install jobs can be found in /var/lib/dpkg or by adding --debug as an option. please check dselect --help and / or dpkg --help Perhaps more sofisticated ways to log exist but I don't know about them. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surg

Re: Mirrors et al.

1996-05-01 Thread LeBlanc
Steffen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's true while I think IMHO the dpkg tool could be anhanced the way > it refuses to update a package when a required one is missing. No, I think dpkg is fine the way it is; I would like to see dselect enhanced. Dpkg needs to be able to do something