Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I think that the -t flag works for getting source as well. Have a > > look at the man page. > > It didn't. I tried that and thought I mentioned it in my email ... > that bit seems to have been omitted. My bad. Ah, yeah, didn't see that ment

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:13:50AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > > > should work, but doesn't. It says "unable to find a source package > > for php4/testing" ... > > > > I'm looking at the pool directory

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Patrick Hsieh
This is cool! Back to apt-cache, can I specify a release name and query the version number of a specific package? like apt-cache -t stable show php4 But seems apt-cache does not provide -t. > Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > > > should

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-12 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > $ apt-get source php4/testing > > should work, but doesn't. It says "unable to find a source package > for php4/testing" ... > > I'm looking at the pool directory and the source for 4.0.100 (the > version in testing) is there ... so you could a

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:32:26AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Hello, > > I've defined stable,testing and unstable URLs in my sources.list file. > After apt-get update, seems apt-get will only deal with the latest version > of packages or sources. Is there any way to specify a specific > tree(s

Re: apt-get source problem

2001-04-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:55:17AM -0700, Tristan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When using apt-get upgrade, apt-get wants to upgrade packages I built from > apt-get -b source even though the package's > version is current. Is there a way of stopping apt-get from doing this? Have you marked your lo

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:27:16 +, Colin Watson said: >>dpkg-source -x licq_1.0-5.dsc > >This was a problem because it complained that the dsc file was not a >gzipped file and I gzipped it. Then it complained that the file was >not the size expected. I down

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:27:16 +, Colin Watson said: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. > >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually > >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source

Re: apt-get source problem with Licq

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having problems getting the latest sources for Licq. >I can download the dsc diff, and tarball for version 1.0 manually >from ftp.debian.org but when I try to get them with 'apt-get source >licq', I get an older version even though my sources.list is set up