Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote: > Hi, > > on shopping for packages, I like gnome-apt. It's Xwindows based so if > X is hosed you can't use it. I tend to avoid GUI's if I can, but > this one I like :) > I would like to suggest stormpkg: has a very useful filter option... Andrea

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-20 Thread Chris Palmer
Joey Hess wrote > Chris Palmer wrote: > > Should I now abandon the settings in dselect and no longer run > > it? I had attempted to flag things that I wanted to add to my > > system in there (and I have no idea what they were now). > > There's absolutely nothing wrong with using dselect. Just lea

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-20 Thread Brad
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:55:36PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > A long, long time ago I responded to a Usenet post asking whether or not > GNU/Linux had any features to prevent users from making an absolute hash > of things. My response then still stands: bitter experience. > > Which

Re: debian upgrade mess; glibc/samba

2000-11-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Chris Palmer wrote: > > According to the usenet this one ("tree connect failed: code 0") > > almost always has to do something with a mismatch between an older > > Linux kernel and a newer glibc. > > I bet I'm experiencing this problem. I'd put my money on it as well. > Do I simply need to > rec

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:49:15PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Palmer wrote: > > ok, so I've heard now from a couple folks that I should avoid > > dselect. It's pretty much been the only way that I'd ever done > > any package maintenance on my system (I guess I'm behind the

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:57:14PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > > on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Wow, was I surprised when a number of packages were removed from my > > > system at the en

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Palmer wrote: > ok, so I've heard now from a couple folks that I should avoid > dselect. It's pretty much been the only way that I'd ever done > any package maintenance on my system (I guess I'm behind the > times). It's also the only way I've know about availability of > packages, and it w

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, on shopping for packages, I like gnome-apt. It's Xwindows based so if X is hosed you can't use it. I tend to avoid GUI's if I can, but this one I like :) -Jon

debian upgrade mess; glibc/samba

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... I've been scrounging around for info on some of the troubles I've run into with my "upgrade" from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 in August (see my email with similar subject as this one for details). ok, so I'm been looking into the trouble I have with Samba, and I found in the Samba message arch

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Palmer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Wow, was I surprised when a number of packages were removed from my > > system at the end. I had a fun time getting perl back on my system, > > and a really cool guy from work crea

Re: debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just joined the list, in hopes of finding a solution to a problem I > had some time back with upgrading my Debian system via APT/dselect. > > I had installed 2.1 from CD, and then used dselect to install nearly

debian upgrade mess

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Palmer
Hi, all... I just joined the list, in hopes of finding a solution to a problem I had some time back with upgrading my Debian system via APT/dselect. I had installed 2.1 from CD, and then used dselect to install nearly all of the packages I was using. Within a week after 2.2 was released (week of