Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 22:16, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Host should not look at your /etc/hosts file. It's one line description > puts it quite succinctly: I got several private mails about that and knwo I think there is a problem with looking up loca host, but it has nothing to do with the 'ho

Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 17:57, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > I have some problems with the DNS service on my woody system and I think > I have experienced the same problems on my sid installation: > > Maybe I have misunderstood something, but I think this behavior is not > correct: > > When I

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 21:55, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > > > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it? Perha

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-30 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it? I've been getting a lot of that the last few days as well. H

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 21:28:00 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't > bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. > > Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. > > Since I'

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. Since I've updated last, now if I try "apt-get upgrade" I get: # apt-get

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Bill Wohler
No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I seem to recall seeing a recommendation to install the testing version of debconf and then rerun the dist-upgrade. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Thanks for that, > > Any idea when the updates could be ready? > > Regards, > > Stephen. > > > On Monday 3

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's OK - that one's been noticed, Joey tracked it down, and is being > > fixed. The problem was that some packages were using a syntax in their > > debconf template file

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Thanks for that, Any idea when the updates could be ready? Regards, Stephen. On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have >

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received > the following error: > > [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60,