Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> I don't know the answer to that one but one possibility is that the
> package was present but that the 'Packages' had not yet been replaced.
>
> I did not look at the time stamps so I have no idea if that could
> possibly have been the problem but only that during 'archive
> maintenance' the various 'Packages' files could be 'out of sync' with
> what is actually present in the areas that the file cover.
>
> In the future, even if that was not the problem this time, you might
> want to take a look in the root of the debian tree to see if the zero
> length file "Archive-Maintenance' is present. When that file is present
> there is a possibility that either a package that is present will not be
> listed in the package file or that there will be files listed that are
> not in the archive.
I ftp'd to ftp.debian.org and looked at / and /pub and didn't see
"Archive-Maintenance".
dselected and it still only found 2.0.30. I'll just download the package
without dselect and then point dselect to it once I've got it on disk.
Thanks hgh
>
> > I was using ftp.debian.org for the ftp setting on dselect but all it
> > found was 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 kernel-source packages.....why didn't it
> > find the 2.0.33 you list above?
>
>
> --
> best,
> -bill
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