On May 18, Glen Carreras wrote > 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)
There is a bug in dpkg-ftp. Here's how to fix it. Edit the file
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install. Find the section that looks like this:
print "\nProcessing Package files...\n";
my $dist;
foreach $dist (@dists) {
my $fn = "Packages.$dist";
if (-f $fn) {
print " $dist...\n";
procpkgfile($fn);
} else {
print "Couldn't find packages file for $dist distribution (re-run
Update)\n";
}
}
And replace it with this:
print "\nProcessing Package files...\n";
my $dist;
foreach $dist (@dists) {
$dist =~ tr/\//_/;
my $fn = "Packages.$dist";
if (-f $fn) {
print " $dist...\n";
procpkgfile($fn);
} else {
print "Couldn't find packages file for $dist distribution (re-run
Update)\n";
}
}
The new "tr" line converts slashes to underscores.
> 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.
There has been talk about it on debian-devel and bugs report filed, but the
maintainer seems to be away from his email. Hopefully someone will do a
non-maintainer release to frozen fixing this bug, or this might become a
FAQ for 1.3
Thanks,
Christian
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