Enrico Zini wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo debtags update >> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found. >> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found. >> debtags: ConsistencyCheckException: Acquirer failed > > Sounds like an older version of debtags which doesn't understand the > apt:// tag source. Is you debtags version >= 1.5.4 ? That is the > version where apt:// has been added.
It's still 1.5.2+b2 in Etch. The version I temporarily installed on Wednesday was 1.5.5+b1, which also pulled in apt-index-watcher. >>>> And is there a way of seeing what has changed in the tags list, >>>> other than stashing private backups and diffing? >>> You can checkout old versions from the database and tagcoll diff. >> I expect you can, but I'm best off sticking with what I've got. > > Could you describe me what is the method that you've got? In designing > newer ways of doing things, I wouldn't want to make people's life > harder. I'm just using: cp /var/cache/debtags/d*current.gz ~/ sudo debtags update zdiff ~/d*current.gz /var/cache/debtags/d*current.gz Not that I'm doing any tagging just now. Last time I tried I got a reply full of "Unknown tag" lines. -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel

