On Mon, 15 May 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:49:54PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > Okay. Will a developer-signed "fake" .changes file with md5sum of the > > upgrade-all.tar do? Does it have to be placed in Incoming (on ftp-master I > > guess) or can you just fetch it from my website? > > Yes, that will do. I can fetch it, but that may be slow. It's best > if it's already on the machine.
Okay, I'll see what I can do. I'll tell you when it's done; you can then use `wget' or the like to get it directly to ftp-master, panic.et.tudelft.nl gets >200kByte/s to about anywhere on the world (10Mbit ethernet directly to the TUDelft ATM backbone). > > apt 0.3.19 is something that I don't really know of, but it is supposed to > > fix > > very annoying deadlocks that occur only when installing/upgrading from CDs. > > AFAIK there's nothing on the boot floppies that can be broken by a new apt. > > Boot-floppies contain the apt binary. They will still use the old > binary for the initial install. Installing the new apt means that > the source for the one on the boot-floppies goes missing, and also means > a new round of autocompiling. I see now. That simple little explanations are often very enlightening ;-) > > But if you are not going to install this (Please tell me!) than I can > > arrange > > for a README on the CDs that points out the problem and where a new apt is > > available. > > I am not going to install it for this test cycle. Okay. Now this is doing business! My faith is high and rising again ;-) Regards, Anne Bezemer
