On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ross Boylan wrote: > Yes (depending on your definition of telling). Every time I run apt I get > lots of error messages, some of which may relate to the situation I > described in my initial report and later in this note (the messages things > like unable to find repository, as well as other more serious-sounding ones. > I can't recall the specifics, and would love to know the best way to capture > them). I ignored them in the sense that I kept going.
There is a program called script that can capture messages like these for you. > Also, I'm pretty sure that it said it was going to get 6 packages, and then > got 9. It may have been after 6 that the overall progress bar stopped. > (Numbers approximate). There is a buglet where APT double downloads in some weird error cases I haven't had time to fix yet. Only one other person has seen that. > Also, if the thing I am trying to do is just something that shouldn't work, > let me know. I'll stop trying to do it! I downloaded a bunch of .deb > files, some to my local hard drive and some burned to CD. I preserved the > directory structure of the original archive. However, control files like Ik. I hope you are using apt-cdrom. Jason
