Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-13 Thread Brent McMillan
oops. I was just pointing to the /debian directory. While poining at hamm all the packages that were missing reappeared. However, specifying the directories "main, non-free, contrib" won't find .deb files even though it updated. hrmph. I'll look around tonight and see if I can find

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brent McMillan wrote: > > Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all > the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD? > Once you ran update (while pointed to hamm on ftp.debian.org) you should have a list of all files of Debian 2.0

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Brent McMillan
Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD? __ |\^/| Brent McMillan ._|\| |/|_. Math student of t

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brent McMillan wrote: > > dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I > had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that > went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything > seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib

dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Brent McMillan
dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib packages are available. So the o