On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:33, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was > >>>> officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? > >>> > >>> Good luck, Christian (the site owner) already removed it. No backups. > >> > >> I gather, that at least some of the files in 'stable' apply to sarge. I > >> just edited my apt-sources.list, changed 'sarge' to 'stable' and > >> installed acroread on a sarge box, and it just works (TM). > > > > Of course at your own risk. And noted things just won't work at all with > > Sarge, being they have deps on things/versions only found in Etch. > > > > That acroread package, is a re-do of the Adobe package, putting things > > in "Debian" locations. > > And splitting out those nasty spy-on-me-plugins. > > I consider this as a temporary measure until I get around upgrading my > sarge machines. The whole debian-mulitmedia.org is outside of debian and > 'use at own risk'. I always thought, dependencies would take care about > not breaking my system. I consider Christian's packages as a 'bonus' to > debian, so it's not mission critical if those packages break (fingers > crossed) > > Johannes
What I don't quite understand is that Christian didn't give us any warning that the Sarge packages from his repo were about to be trashed when Etch went stable. I for one would have found some spare harddrive space, and DL'd as many of them as possible. I mean. it's not like harddrive space is expensive these days. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
