On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:45:25AM +0200, Brock Rozen wrote: > Could we put this, and maybe the proper IPs, in the release notes? I > didn't see the notice that it wouldn't resolve domain names....so going IP > was obvious to *me* (maybe not to everyone).
This is already in release notes: <p>Note: if you are using the static versions of <package/apt/ and <package/dpkg/, the hostname-lookup is broken (which is one reason to use slink's <package/apt/ when upgrading over the network). The solution is to simply put the mirrors' IP address in the "<tt>deb</tt>" line. (Hint: <tt>nslookup some-server</tt>) After upgrade, APT will upgrade itself from the statically-compiled version to the version from the distribution (due to different md5sum, IIRC), so the DNS problem will go away. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
