Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
Daniel Martin wrote: > > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > > > cp /archive/*.deb /var

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > > cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ > Specifically,

RE: Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-20 Thread Matthias Wieser
My guess is you have to remount the partition and then it should work fine for u, at least you can fix ur problem. mount /dev/... / -o remount,rw (like that I think should make ur root partition writeable again) Ciao, matthias -- __ _ __ * /\ /\ \ \

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
No, I don't. I re-installed frtom the slink cd again, so all was lost. I have another problem now: After choosing the scientific workstation in slink 2.1, I did, pointing sources.list to frozen, 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get dist-upgrade Here all went smooth, but then, after I did 3. apt-get insta

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-20 Thread w trillich
i'm glad this came up. i'm about to renter this zone myself, starting over from 2.1 slink cd's and then apt-get upgrading to potato again... Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Questions: > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I also wonder if you still have a list of the selections held by `dpkg' in that machine? `dpkg --get-selections' `dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections' `apt-get dselect-upgrade' > "Antonio" == Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Antonio> I haven't found any package c

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I haven't found any package called dpkg-scanpackages. I searched the deb site, can't find it. can you be more explicit? Thanks Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Questions: > > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > > perform the upgrade

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? cp /archive/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ (or ln -s) Fini. Jason

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There has been a small discussion in the debian-users mailing list about > how to restore a system that was, in the following order: > 1. Installed, slink (for example) > 2. Upgraded (apt-get update, dist-upgrade pointing to frozen) > 3. A copy of th

Re: apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Questions: > 1:) What is the best way to make apt-get use the /archives folder to > perform the upgrade and return the system to stage 2. above? > 2:) Perhaps some other feature can be added to apt-get to allow this > reconstruction to occur in a smooth way? That would s

apt-get, upgrade, /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-05-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
There has been a small discussion in the debian-users mailing list about how to restore a system that was, in the following order: 1. Installed, slink (for example) 2. Upgraded (apt-get update, dist-upgrade pointing to frozen) 3. A copy of the /var/cache/apt/archives was made in another partition 4