First let me apologize if this has been answered previously, however I scan the list daily and have found no reference to this yet.
It seems that I cannot get dselect to successfully complete operation when I try to work with the unstable ditributions. (i.e unstable/main unstable/contrib unstable/non-free) Utilizing ftp.debian.org I enter /debian as my top level directory and enter unstable, hamm/non-free, and hamm/contrib for the list of distributions to get. The update phase seems to go smoothly and I can select packages, but when I go to the install phase I get the error "Couldn't find packages file for hamm/contrib distribution (re-run update)" I get the same error for non-free. I have tried various combinations of top level directory and distribution directory combinations all of which seem to work one way or another, but not all at once. (I can get contrib and non-free to work properly, but not unstable or vice-versa) I have found that /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/vars writes the distributions like so: $distribs='unstable hamm/contrib hamm/non-free' yet the package files are named Packages.hamm_contrib etc. If I edit the vars file to read: $distribs='unstable hamm_contrib hamm_non-free' then everything goes without a hitch, however, then I have a problem the next time I run the update phase because it can't find the distributions. I'm sorry this is getting so long. I have been dealing with this since the hamm distribution started, thinking that this would soon be a corrected bug, but I'm starting to think maybe it's something wrong with my installation since there is no discussion on the list about it. Any help would be much appreciated. Glen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
