On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Manuel Saelices wrote:
> Hello, I'd like to upgrade to a Woody (I have a Potato). When I run the
> following command (after running apt-cdrom):
> apt-get -f dist-upgrade
> It respondes as follows:
> ...
> Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled and
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote:
> I've watched everywhere, but I haven't found how to add the "Task:" field to
> "Packages" files. Where can I look for?
>
> dpkg-scanpackages doesn't do it, and tasksel documentation is very little...
apt-ftparchive does it with the ExtraOve
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Well, I wonder how to use ExtraOverride with "apt-ftparchive packages".
> I can't use "apt-ftparchive generate" for my needs.
Well, yes you can. The command line options are a subset of what you can
do with a configuration file. I recommend making a
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:18:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > 1) Make the empty file dists/woody/aptignr
> > - This tells apt-cdrom that the CD is foobar'd below this directory
> >and it should
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Having random insecure files, however tempting they may look, shouldn't
> stop a user from at least knowing whether they're using something straight
> from Debian or not.
I would prefer that instructions be as simple as possible to minimize
errors. I
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Having more than one tree means it will be detected more than once and
> > that certianly is not desirable, any may cause problems, like it asking
> > for the disks in a non-ideal order, or something equally lame.
> May or will cause problem ?
I
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:05:35PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > How exactly do you propose that apt-cdrom determine that these two random
> > trees of stuff are actually the same tree of stuff? Current apt-cdrom will
> >
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> A CD (or iso image) is essentially one file and the integrity of this can
> be verified by a single signed checksum.
No, that is such an oversimplification and what you have described of the
HURD CD's prooves that.
CD's may in fact contain content f
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > Nope, packages fails verification and APT will stop without using the
> > file, ditto for ftp, http, etc.
>
> EVERY access method up to current potato APT will work nicely with this. If
> woody/sid APT suddenly stops working correctly, thats a grave
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:27:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> > So anyway, how does the above idea (two woody trees in dists),
> > sound? Workable, or are there other problems?
>
> I don't see any apart from the fact that most tools will use
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > b) Use verbatim package files and call them 'Packages.something'
> > - Everyone can make CD set, and we still have end-to-end security
> > - apt file:/../ does not work properly on those discs
> e) The Packages of the FTP archive is copied verba
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> That's the first time I see Debian willing to accept "invalid" CDs instead
> of designing cleanly the thing from scratch so that such problem don't
> exist.
Ha! It hasn't been until recently that Debian has had 'valid' CDs at all.
> > > I'm really
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately
> > constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I
> > totally don't care.
>
> Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining
> d
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> Apt-cdrom does not work. dselect works if the file system is strangely
> modified. apt will work if the CD is copied to a separate partition.
Hurd even had apt-cdrom? The ancient version that was packaged sure didn't
include it, so I'm not amazed if
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> With the Hurd CDs it is even worse. The file structure on the CDs has
> only a passing resemblance to any file system found on a Debian CD or
> mirror past or present. It has to be like that or it will not work.
I don't even think I want to know..
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > APT does not support that, if it does not work then too bad, I don't care.
> > :P
> Apt always supported that. If I put my CD and mount it on /cdrom and
> use "deb file:/cdrom/debian woody main contrib non-free" in sources.list,
> it does work !
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > So I think we should continue to generate _correct_ Packages files for
> > each CD, and solve the "signing issue" using some other method.
>
> I repeat my earlier suggestion. Sign md5sums.gz, this is supp
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > I think the best suggestion was to have a Packages.cd which could be used
>
> Packages.cd files exists but exists only for dpkg-multicd which is a
> dselec
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > 2a) Check that the md5sums of the Packages-signed.gz and
> > Sources-signed.gz files you have match the md5sums listed
> > in the Release file
> > 2b) Check that every package listed in each Packages.gz and
> > Sou
Anyone want to take him up?
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> Interesting. That would mean apt-cdrom gets an ls -lR of the CD and checks
> which files match the Filename: fields (and probably also Size:). That's
> already implemented? (Some people might want to try it out)
No, it gets a Package file and ensures i
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> I have a question about the pool. Where are the new Packages files (or
> their equivelent) going to be placed? This is something I have yet to
> discover. Thanks.
In exactly the same place as the old ones, so that URL comptibiltity is
retained.
J
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> Thus far the .deb package organization on the CDs has reflected the situation
> in the main archive -- which was the logical choice. However now that we're
> going to have package pools, we might want to reconsider this. Currently
> section-based orderi
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> The Hurd CD will almost certainly have to be restructured in the old way
> as I doubt if any of the Hurd versions of apt, dselect et al would
No version of APT exists that does not support the pool.
Jason
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> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > It sure is there, your copy of the mirror is simply outdated.
> Sorry, I reversed things, the locales_2.1.2-10.deb package is in the
> mirror; the Packages file says that it is locales_2.1.3-13.deb
> Similarly with locale-ja a
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> > I think you ran your mirror at the wrong time.
> File dists/potato/main/binary-i386/admin/locales_2.1.3-13.deb can't be
> found ...
saens{jgg}~#ls -l
/org/ftp.root/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/admin/locales_2.1.3-13.deb
-rw-rw-r--1 arc
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> The problem is with locales (several) where the the package name does not
> match the name in Packages. Cure, run dpkg-scanpackages?
I think you ran your mirror at the wrong time.
Jason
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> This has changed. The Filename field now dereferences the symlink, so it
> points to the actual file in binary-all.
This change was primarily intended to help users understand cryptic
download failure messages due to dangling links and in-progress mirrors.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >> as discribed in the BTS the Package format has changes a bit (Filename is now
> >> FileName). Here is the Patch to make debian-cd work with this changes:
In a couple days the main package files will flip back to being 'Filename'
which is what it h
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > It doesn't *need* to be fixed, it is not a problem,
>
> We have always considered things that may be improved as bugs.
I do not consider what you are proposing to be an improvement and I have
not seen any strong reason to make me change my mind.
I
Topic says it all, others will appear there later.
Jason
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > apt-cdrom deliberately chooses [unstable,frozen,stable] above all other
> > duplicated names on the CD. This is to indicate to the user the status of
> > the disc. The CD label should (and does generally) contain the release
> > version.
>
> Ok, if
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > not picking up the non-US and local directories.
You need 0.3.19 for proper non-us support.
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - test-cycle-2 i386 Binary-1 (2611)]/
>unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> to /etc/apt/sou
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