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and subject line Re: [Cupt-devel] Bug#672804: cupt update fails when no
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.3
Severity: normal
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It's the first time that I try to use cupt, and it doesn't seem to be
working at all in my system. Any hint?
# cupt update
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable Release
Fail:1 no download handlers available (uri
'http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release')
Fetched 0B in 0s.
E: there were errors while downloading release and index data
E: error performing the command 'update'
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
500 unstable ftp.uk.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-==============
libboost-program-options1.49.0 (>= 1.49.0-1) | 1.49.0-3
libc6 (>= 2.2.5) | 2.13-32
libcupt2-0 (>= 2.5.3) | 2.5.3
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.7.0-8
libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) | 4.7.0-8
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Suggests (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-===========
sensible-utils | 0.0.6
libreadline6 | 6.2-8
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello Manuel, Jonathan,
On 2012-05-13 14:38, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > It's the first time that I try to use cupt, and it doesn't seem to be
> > working at all in my system. Any hint?
> >
> > # cupt update
> > Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable Release
> > Fail:1 no download handlers available
>
> libcupt2-0 declares that it Recommends
>
> libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl | libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-wget
>
This. Manuel, you probably switched installing Recommends off which is
not a good idea since Recommends is for "all but unusual installations".
So, install the 'libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl' package, which should
have been installed by default.
> Presumably this is not a Depends because it is also possible to write
> your own download handler. Eugene, do you think it would make sense
> to have a libcupt2-0-downloadmethod virtual package so this could say
>
> Depends: libcupt2-0-downloadmethod-curl | libcupt2-0-downloadmethod
These are put to Recommends by intent, because:
1) there are file:// and copy:// built-ins;
2) one can, as you just said, write a custom download method;
3) finally, on some embedded system you can in theory install download
methods, download some unchangeable suite's cache, remove Cupt download
methods (along with wget/libcurl) and they play with repository analysis
and simulations.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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