I get the lists now and the download seems to work but the install-fase
seems much too fast and when I fetch new packages again I still seems to
have the same versions of the packages that I updated.
/Anders
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Fr�n: Renaud Chaillat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Skickat: den 27 juli 2001 13:49
> Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kopia: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> �mne: Re: [Cooker-firewall] Re: Why are update questions not being
> answered?
>
>
> On Friday 27 July 2001 12:27, you wrote :
> > I think we can rule out the active/passive ftp. I opened up
> the bastille
> > script to allow active ftp and the update still didn't work :-(
> >
> > I have also throu tcpdump noticed that I do get a response from the
> > selected ftp-server so the error is probably later in the
> parsing of the
> > data. I can send you a transcript from tcpdump of a session
> if it helps you
> > (I doubt it thou)
> >
>
> I've taken a look and found the problem.
> This has nothing to do with the network configuration, but is
> due to changes
> made in the update policy at the final stage of the product :
> snf has now its
> own directory for updates, but since it's a 7.2 at its core,
> the updated
> packages are the same and so are simple _links_ to the 7.2
> updated packages.
>
> Being a link simply breaks a regular expression in the
> scripts that handle
> the packages list, packages_to_update.pl, download_packages.pl and
> show_description.pl. I think this had been tested only with
> real files :-(
>
> Since they're small, I attach the modified files to this
> mail, tell me if
> this fixes the problem. They must be placed in
> /usr/share/naat/scripts/
>
> Regards,
> Renaud
>
