Re: dselect query

2000-09-25 Thread Debian User
Thanks for the info, it does look like the status and available files are out of sync. Not sure why this should have occured as I used 2.2 test 1 CD set and apt-get'ed the test 3 updates (this worked fine). I got the offical 2.2 on CD, install these (agian via apt) and these get out of sync.

dselect query

2000-09-24 Thread Debian User
Hi, just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get rid of this (as these packages are the current versions) is to run ap

Re: dselect query

2000-09-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
You will get this if you install a package and a later Packages.gz doesn't contain that package. Several packages were deleted prior to release because of release-critical bugs that weren't fixed. If you remove them and the package is no longer available, you won't be able to reinstall. You may

dselect query

2000-09-23 Thread Debian User
Hi, just upgraded my system from a mix of Test 1 and Test 3 to the full 2.2 release. Noticed that I now appear to have alot of "Obsolete/local Optional packages" now showing in dselect. According to the docs the best way to get rid of this (as these packages are the current versions) is to run ap