Trying to understand the package pools

2001-01-15 Thread bryan
Quick question . . . Maybe I don't understand the package pools yet but I noticed today that when searching for for the package kernel-source-2.2.18 on www.debian.org, the only thing that the site returns (for either stable, testing, or unstable) is the pre-release package: kernel-s

Re: Package pools and Japanese Debian problems

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use Japanese Debian, and ever since pools were introduced I've not >been able to update many packages at all without download errors, It looks like ftp.debian.or.jp/debian-jp/ is badly broken; it doesn't know about package pools

Package pools and Japanese Debian problems

2001-01-06 Thread Neil Booth
I use Japanese Debian, and ever since pools were introduced I've not been able to update many packages at all without download errors, and new revisions seem to be far less frequent. Here is a typical apt-get example:- monkey:/home/neil# apt-get install modutils Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Re: package pools

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:06:00AM +0100, John Beining wrote: > Is the package file dd. 12/18/00 > /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz complete? Where are the > links with the files in the pools? I got surprised by that also. Only those packages which are common to potato seem to be shown i

package pools

2000-12-19 Thread John Beining
Is the package file dd. 12/18/00 /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz complete? Where are the links with the files in the pools?