On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:46:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reply-To: > Hi, > I've been installing hamm on a test partition a couple of times and have > some questions now. First, my situation: > 1. Nightly running: > wget --mirror ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm -a /root/wget.log -X \ > "*-alpha*,*-m68k*,*-powerpc*,*-sparc*,*source*"
You know...I read this and thought ti was a great idea...I had been going and ftp'ing in by hand and asking for binary-i386.tar.gz every time I wanted to burn a CD..then have to unpack etc... PITA I tried this with wget...it wont work. According tot ht elogs it logs on and says that "hamm is not a plain file" and gives up...I have tried many variations including typed exactly as you gave it. > a. Because I'm running i386, I felt that I wouldn't be needing any of > those other directories. Correct? I'll d/load from source when the need > arises sounds like a plan > 2. Installation > a. In order to get dselect to behave, I had to make these symlinks: > (I ran wget from /usr/local/debian) > > Is that the correct way to handle things? Or is there a better method > until hamm goes stable? does it work and install? then it is correct :) > c. Each time I install packages through dselect, it must go through every > file in the archive and "decide" whether to install it or not. Is there > a way I can tell dselect to only try to install the files I selected, > rather than stepping through the whole tree? Well that is dselect :) thats how it works -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
