> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
>> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
>> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
>> (do that quite often myse
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
> (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK.
dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> Joost> dpkg available packages database.
>
> Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on
--On Friday, July 13, 2001 22:37:02 +1000 Graham Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quite a few times I've "apt-get update". I then check to see which
packages have been upgraded wrt my installation, then go to install
them with apt-get install and the deb files are not there. Checking
the ac
Received Fri 13 Jul 2001 9:16pm +1000 from Joost Kooij:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> > no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
Sorry not to have any useful
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
> -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
> ftp.us.debian.org there
But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
-- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
ftp.us.debian.org there is no util-linux later than April 15 which I
already have -- and yet
Breathe, man, breathe...
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:20:53 "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> >> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could
> they
>
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
>> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>> be out of date?
Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use th
I did a dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing
packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade. I have not had
any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its
not working.
Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for
util-linux
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
> be out of date?
If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available
packages database. Apt normally uses its own available packages database
John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>be out of date?
'apt-get update' only updates apt's available file, not dpkg's. 'dselect
update' updates both.
However, if you're using apt, then this shouldn't matter. It may just be
tha
I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
be out of date?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> > missing files and indeed if I ftp to
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
> not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> there?
>
> I am running wo
I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
there?
I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the
output.
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