on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:33:55AM +0100, marTin insinuated: > that's the problem with apt in potato, it can't pin. do you still > have that debian.madduck.net line in /etc/apt/source.list? i could > offer a kernel update and the package compiled and ready for > potato...
yup, still there. that could be cool ... > > and why should it try to REMOVE gmp, gnucash, wmakerconf, xmms, > > xscreensaver, and all those?? not wanting to trash all those and have > > to re-install them, i hit 'no'. > > you are doing apt-get upgrade and it tries to upgrade to woody. no, i'm not. i'm doing apt-get upDATE and then apt-get install ... it's not like it tries to remove the old gimp, and then install the new one, or like the old gimp would prevent spamasssassin from working ... > if you want to do that, do apt-get -u dist-upgrade, but if you > don't, remove the testing lines from sources.list again and do an > apt-get update. if i remove the testing lines, i won't be able to get spamassassin through apt-get, since it's only available for testing and unstable, the point which led to this thread. should i just conclude that i am unable to get spamassassin through apt-get while i am running potato? > > well, ignoring the fact that i have no idea how to dpkg-buildpackage > > get the source, cd into the dir, do > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > and sit back. getting the source involves typing %apt-get source spamassassin , right? if not, how do i get it? if yes, the output is still as nasty as before (well, not *quite* as, since i removed a few of the bad lines, but still the same idea). > well, did you apt-get update all the way through? yes. religiously. > security.debian.org has no testing entries. make that stable. afaik... [...] > adrian doesn't have woody there either (yet). make that potato. [...] > and i think you can safely remove those two... done. still no results. > kernels? why kernels? releases... the kernel is *absoultely* > independent. the kernel is Linux, the rest is Debian. woody is Debian > and can be run with any kernel, 1.x, 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4... all right, my confusion. i mean releases. what are different kernels, then? > i'll show you how if and only if you are going to become a responsible > debian maintainer! :-P cross my heart. i'd love a tutorial. thanks again, </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
