Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for > the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no > sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no > backup!) I'm pretty

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread Junaedi Kartawijaya
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I have no sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe > > computing - no backup!) > Take a gander in /var/lib/apt/lists/ perhaps? running dselect then choose setup may also fix it I guess. Or run apt-cdrom. Junaedi _

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread mdanish
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for > the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no > sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no > backup!) > > Is there

Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread Neil Glenn
I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no backup!) Is there a way to get it back from apt's cache? or perhaps from some dpkg info?

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread mdanish
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for > the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no > sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no > backup!) > > Is ther

Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-10 Thread Neil Glenn
I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no backup!) Is there a way to get it back from apt's cache? or perhaps from some dpkg info?

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? > > Build a chroot with debootstrap and install the build-essential package > and its dependencies. Anything else you have to install to get the > package to build is a build dependen

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? > > Build a chroot with debootstrap and install the build-essential package > and its dependencies. Anything else you have to install to get the > package to build is a build depende

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:17:47PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > > I've taken over wvdial package with permission. The package had several > > bugs fixed in former NMUs and I've uploaded a new version to fix another > > one, but the bugs fixed in former NMUs are still marked a

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:17:47PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: > > I've taken over wvdial package with permission. The package had several > > bugs fixed in former NMUs and I've uploaded a new version to fix another > > one, but the bugs fixed in former NMUs are still marked