Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?

2001-03-02 Thread Olivier Delemar
Le jeu 01 mar 2001 à 12:11:21 +0100, J.A. Bezemer écrivait : > Note that apt-get update does _not_ update /var/lib/dpkg/available. Either run > /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update for that, or do > apt-cache dumpavail > /tmp/Packages and use that instead. Hmmm, there's still a problem with t

Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?

2001-03-02 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Why don't you use this? apt-get --print-uris install It will print the URI from where apt-get would download the file. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Olivier Delemar wrote: > Le jeu 01 mar 2001 à 12:11:21 +0100, J.A. Bezemer écrivait : > > Note that apt-get update does _not_ u

Available file (was Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?)

2001-03-02 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, bbennet wrote: > Can someone explain why apt-get update will not make a new > /var/lib/dpkg/available? /var/lib/dpkg/available is a file used only by dselect. (And tasksel, but I consider that a grave bug.) It only matches apt-cache dumpavail if dselect is set to use the ap

Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?

2001-03-02 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote: > Why don't you use this? > > apt-get --print-uris install > > It will print the URI from where apt-get would download the file. That's a nice option whenever you're about to install a new package. However the problem was t

Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?

2001-03-02 Thread Olivier Delemar
Le ven 02 mar 2001 à 01:14:33 +0100, J.A. Bezemer écrivait : > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote: > > apt-get --print-uris install > > That's a nice option whenever you're about to install a new package. However > the problem was to (re)fetch all packages that were already

Re: cdimage pages in wml

2001-03-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:21:30AM +0100, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > > One problem: cdimage.d.o does not do content negotiation, and even if it did > > > I'd refuse to use it[*]. So a reference to just "faq" won't work, it has to be > > > "faq.en.html". Is there any wml trick that can automagically a

> 31 character file names with mksiofs

2001-03-02 Thread Allison, Jason A.
Anyone know how to allow greater that 31 character filenames? Tried -U, -J, and -iso-level 3. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pay Per Click Opportunity for debian CD Images

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Re: > 31 character file names with mksiofs

2001-03-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:10:35AM -0500, Allison, Jason A. wrote: > Anyone know how to allow greater that 31 character filenames? > > Tried -U, -J, and -iso-level 3. > > Any other thoughts? -J should have worked, actually (gets you 64-char filenames). You might also want to use -r or -R (Rockr

GNU/Linux ISO Cd image

2001-03-02 Thread Girish Kamath
Hi   Iam trying to get ISO CD image of Debian  GNU/Linux CD's. Iam unable to find one. I have browsed nearly all the ftp mirror sites but iam not able to get an ISO image. I have only unlimited HTTP/FTP access at my work place. Can you point me any of the ISO images at HTTP/FTP sites ? Rega

Re: Available file (was Re: Is there a "Pseudo Mirror Kit"?)

2001-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
J.A. Bezemer wrote: > /var/lib/dpkg/available is a file used only by dselect. (And tasksel, but I > consider that a grave bug.) And of course, by dpkg -p. :-P > It only matches apt-cache dumpavail if dselect is > set to use the apt [A]ccess method, and is updated only if you [U]pdate from > with

Re: GNU/Linux ISO Cd image

2001-03-02 Thread Rob Helmer
http://cdimage.debian.org On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:03:21PM -0800, Girish Kamath wrote: > Hi > > Iam trying to get ISO CD image of Debian GNU/Linux CD's. Iam unable > to find one. I have browsed nearly all the ftp mirror sites but iam > not able to get an ISO image. > I have only unlimited HT