On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, John Spence wrote: > I've just installed 1.3.1 with my shiny new CDROM set so please don't > tell me that Debian GNU/Linux version 2.0.0 is due out next week.
Nope. We might make it out by the end of the year, but I very much doubt it. Upgrading to libc6 is a massive undertaking that is more akin to releasing a completely new distribution than it is to the reasonably minor upgrades we've done otherwise. > My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine > when I worked out how to display a list of "All" packages installed or > not. However I ran it a second time just to familiarise myself with it > and when I went to quit I accidentally selected "Install". > > As expected the program starting flying throught the list of programs > but it never seemed to stop. My screen saver activated twice as I was > waiting for the program to stop. I'm not sure what the default time > the screensaver is set to but it took ages before I decided that the > program was in an infinite loop and pressed Ctrl-C to cancel. > > No harm seems to have been done. All of the programs I remember > installing work fine. I used the dpkg utility to install the > staroffice.xxxxxx.deb and netscape.xxxxx.deb wrapper programs and they > seem to work fine too, thanks to a scan of the debian-user archives. Unfortunatly I'm lost as to what happened to you here. Installing new packages can take a while, especially if you're installing a lot of them. "dpkg --audit" should tell you if dpkg thinks anything is in an inconsistant state. > Can anyone give me a brief run-down on these files from > /var/lib/dpkg OR point me to a doc that will tell me more about how > package management works under Debian. > > available 576,252 > available-old 576,252 The packages dpkg/dselect believe to be available on your chosen installation material > cmethopt 13 Not certain here, possibly what installation method you've chosen > diversions 112 > diversions-old 57 dpkg can "divert" files from certain packages so other packages can provide better versions of them (ssltelnet diverts telnet to replace it for example) > lock 0 > methlock 0 Various lock files. Their existance isn't a bug. > predep-package 0 Not certain about this one. > status 232,180 > status-old 232,158 The current state of all packages on your system. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
