Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > trick. But what then is the function of the apt.conf file? What am I > missing out on? I like fiddling in conf files You fiddled it wrong.. That config file is not ment for general use, it does 'weird' things. Jason

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Neilen Marais
Hello On 17-Jan-2000 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > >> If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the >> following problem after the package files have been downloaded: > > 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' > > Jason > I moved the apt.conf f

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: > If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the > following problem after the package files have been downloaded: 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' Jason

Re: dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate > partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for > this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell > dselect that I was mounting from a directo