On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:26:45AM +0100, Gaby Schilders wrote:
> In that case why don't you make use of apt-get -f
> dist-upgrade and create a 'task-base'? That would be
> the first time that I see _real_ legitimate case for a
> task package... :) The necesarry packages would be in
> that package and you get floppy real-estate for nice
> things as a main mirror-list. If things change you
> have
> a standardized way of updating instead of having to
> hack an obscure script.
> Even if you don't use a task-package you can maybe
> spare an inode and seperate the list from the script.
> Just some ideas.
apt-get hasn't been installed yet, neither has much of
anything else. What do you use to install apt-get and
it's supporting requirements?
I'm redirecting this to debian-boot where the smart people live.
Stephen
> --- Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:51:12AM +0100, Gaby
> > Schilders wrote:
> > > I already found out that it is indeed packages
> > > breaking during install. In this case groff-base
> > > didn't install so it hung on groff and man-db not
> > > installing. Nice to know but I have two remarks:
> >
> > Right, I'd forgotten which packages in particular.
> >
> > > please put the error from apt-get instead of the
> > error
> > > that debootstrap generates to make debugging
> > easier
> > > for the non-initiated. Secondly I think the
> > install
> > > shouldn't break on base-packages, especially when
> > > doing a net-install. (I did try a different
> > > install-site,
> >
> > It's a bit more complex than that, but I agree that
> > error isn't
> > obvious. It bit me and it took me a while to
> > discover what was
> > going on. Of course, once base is frozen, we won't
> > have quite
> > these problems. For instance, I believe that groff
> > got split and
> > debootstrap downloads "base" packages by name and
> > doesn't do
> > dependency checking. This just isn't something that
> > you normally
> > have to worry about with a stable system.
> >
> > > nada. The previous set of bootfloppies gave the
> > same
> > > problems altough they had worked a few days
> > earlier.
> > > They had their own hiccups so I decided to try
> > these
> > > for re-doing the install... my bad... now I have
> > > nothing ;P)
> >
> > The problem isn't strictly in boot-floppies
> > (although debootstrap now
> > installs groff-base). boot-floppies, in particular
> > debootstrap,
> > downloads packages from a mirror. If a package is
> > broken in the mirror,
> > then boot-floppies breaks even if nothing has
> > changed in the
> > boot-floppy code.
> >
> > > Btw, who do I go to for suggestions on features
> > and
> > > changes?
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Subscription and archive information is available
> > off of
> > <http://debian.org>. The code is available
> > anonymously from
> > cvs.debian.org feel free to make patches and send
> > them to the list.
> >
> > > p.s. I _love_ the two floppy net-install using
> > compact.
> >
> > That's my main installation for most of my
> > production systems (potato).
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > --
> > Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not
> > doing it right!
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
> or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
--
Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PGP signature
