I have been following your thread & you have my
sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or
suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a
bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg &
dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best
medium in practice. They admit that the interface is not
the best but that the basic workingness is very good. And
they do seem to be a good place to start from to write
something that does work well. And the
documentation! Enough said.
At 3/4/99 08:42 PM , you wrote:
Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A
better option would be to
tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix
them
--
Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system
as broken. And
there are a lot of them. I tried switching to exim from
smail, just to
try it. I have constant error messages. Several aps/
games like quake
no longer run when not in X and I can not seem to find the
requested
libraries or get them installed. Fetchmail does not
work Most things
on the box seem to work fine, but the whole thing seems a
little whacked
In the hope that my errors will not be repeated by other I
will endure
the embarrassment of explaining how this happened. My
system was running
fine off the packages is on my Debian 2.0 cdrom. I
decided to upgrade
some of the packages via ftp. When I upgraded the package
lists of
stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect presumed
that I wanted
to upgrade everything on my system. That everything I had
previously
installed that had a newer package available was selected
for install
and included in the download list.
This created a serious problem for me because I need the
packaging
system to warn me about dependencies. If I cancel the
download and try
to install individual packages via dpkg the required
packages will
already be marked as selected and no dependency warnings
will be given.
I tried getting part of the list of aps I wanted to
upgrade, but got a
ton of error messages for the reasons just cited. Not
knowing what else
to do I decided to get everything that had been
selected. I must say
I'm kind of ashamed of this since I really do know better
than to hog an
ftp site like that, but I really did not know what else to
do.
Needless to say lots of errors occur when you try to ftp
hundreds of mgs
of files. Now dselect say 90% of my packages are broken.
Far to many to
fix one at a time using dpkg. I feel as if I have lost
control of my
system. I would like to get control back. Any help is
greatly
appreciated. Thank You
