On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > While running apt-get via dselect I found a typo in > /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup on line 118. "components" was mis-spelt.
Manoj tells me this should be fixed in .4. > After fixing this I used apt-get to do the main install on a new > installation from the Mar 29 boot disks. The only little problem was that > it would not proceed at first because one of the packages was missing from > my mirror. I had to go in with dselect and mark it "purge" before apt > would stop insisting on having it. Ah, yes, it locates and checks all the archives before even thinking about continuing. What you could do is run dpkg-scanpackages on your mirror to generate a Packages.gz that is valid for your mirror and then put at the end of sources.list a http site - it would then download only the things that it couldn't fetch locally from the mirror. > It was a pleasure to use. Thanks! Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
