Re: Recovering dpkg database

cache/apt/archives/*.deb This will force a reinstall. You just have to hope that upgraded packages don't break on you. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it.&q

Architecture question

I'm packaging acl2, which can take several hours to compile on a PPro 200. Would it be reasonable to exclude certain architectures as too slow? (acl2 is a theorem prover.) -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter h

Re: Dual CPU compilation.

" (or whatever) before running make-kpkg. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Florence Ambrose pgplCGXtkjDWx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recovering dpkg database

. I had used apt-get -d to download and dpkg -i to install (dpkg will reinstall packages with plain -i). -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Florence Ambrose pgpBpRxXMRy5E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users) are advised not to upgrade. Anyone know how exactly the testing scripts managed to miss this breakage? -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This mess

Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, ** apt-listchanges ** users DO NOT UPGRADE

ke an idiot. It's supposed to be apt-listchanges, not aptitude. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message is digitally signed. Please PGP encrypt mail to me. "Most parents have better things to do with their time than take care of their children." -- Me pgpE5rH4YfQTY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Warning: python-apt in testing broken, aptitude users DO NOT UPGRADE

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:01:31PM -0500, Taral wrote: > > Looks like the python2.2 stuff migrated into testing without noticing > > that it breaks python-apt. Anyone using python-apt (e.g. aptitude users) > > are a

Re: XFree 4.0.3 used by some debian developers and their sid packages depend on it (but not available)

forward it to the TC. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Florence Ambrose pgp8Rn8GkXmAh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libc6 broken?

CTED]' Uh, why do you have libc 2.2.3? We don't have libc 2.2.3 in the archive. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please use PGP/GPG encryption to send me mail. "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Florence Ambrose pgpxKn6AQmsgr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Disappearing task-* packages!

All the task-* packages seem to be missing from the main Packages file! Where did they go? P.S. If this was announced, perhaps the announcement should have gone to the debian-devel-announce list? -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message is digitally signed. Please PGP encrypt mail to me