http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | > ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was > through I rebooted and life was good. Good work, Debian Team. :-) > > Then I restarted dselect and decided to upgrade /hamm/non-free and > /hamm/contrib, but now dselect can't find the Packages files. Further, > reverting to /hamm/hamm, dselect can't find the Packages files. I know > it's right there, because I'm looking at it in a ftp client. I've even > changed mirrors. I've got dpkg 1.4.20, dpkg-dev 1.4.20, dpkg-ftp 1.4.9, > which I've verified are the latest. > > The error message looks like this: > -------------------------------------- > Connecting to ftp.debian.org... > Login as anonymous... > Setting transfer mode to binary... > Cd to /debian... > Getting Packages file from /hamm/non-free/binary-i386... > Could not find Packages[.gz] in /hamm/non-free/binary-i386, stoppedFTP > ERROR > > update available list script returned error exit status 1. > Press RETURN to continue. > --------------------------------------- > > I even downloaded the Packages file and ran dpkg -A Packages, and > the new list was displayed in dselect, but when I selected [I]nstall, > dselect said: "Couldn't find packages file for _hamm_non-free > distribution (re-run Update)". > > How can I get dselect to see the Packages files again? > > -- > D a v i d S t e r n > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- 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] .
