Re: dselect

[thomas . gies]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:41:33PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
> >
> > APT::Default-Release "testing";
> >
> > in my apt.conf?
> 
> Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written
> first, and doesn't really understand why one would have multiple
> available versions of the same package, so it just picks the newest
> one ("unstable").  If you're looking for a CUI dpkg frontend that
> understands more of what APT is up to, you might look at aptitude.
> 
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I think I found it. When I added the unstable sources, dselect contained
two gnumerics. I accidentaly installed the version, that is only
available in unstable.

Perhaps the best solution is to remove the unstable sources after
installing the desired packages.

Thomas
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Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 



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dselect

[Thomas Gies]

Hi.

Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put

APT::Default-Release "testing";

in my apt.conf?

Thomas
-- 
Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 



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Re: Bash question

[thomas . gies]

Hi.

Try find. It has the -exec parameter. That is what you want.

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avr-gcc/avr-libc

[thomas . gies]

Hi,

I tried to compile a simple programm for my avr microprocessor, that I
have found on linuxfocus.

To make it short. It workes with the compiler and libs from stable and
unstable, but with the testing releases there is a linker error saying,
that he cannot find -lgcc, because the version available on my system is
incompatible (whatever this means).

Someone having the same problems? Or perhaps a solution?

I guess, that the avr-libc, that is available in testing was compiled
with a different version of avr-gcc. But that is only a guess.

Should I file a bug?

Thomas

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Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 



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avr-gcc/avr-libc

[thomas . gies]

Hi,

I tried to compile a simple programm for my avr microprocessor, that I
have found on linuxfocus.

To make it short. It workes with the compiler and libs from stable and
unstable, but with the testing releases there is a linker error saying,
that he cannot find -lgcc, because the version available on my system is
incompatible (whatever this means).

Someone having the same problems? Or perhaps a solution?

I guess, that the avr-libc, that is available in testing was compiled
with a different version of avr-gcc. But that is only a guess.

Should I file a bug?

Thomas

-- 
Die Welt ist kunterbunt, mein Arsch wiegt 180 Pfund. - Hans Peter Gies, 1989 



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apt-get / sources.list

[thomas . gies]

Hi,

I'm using testing and stable. Yesterday I had to install some packages from unstable.

When I added the sourcelines for unstable and run an apt-get update the
information about the packages was fetched, but when reading the
packagelist, apt stoped with an error message saying, that it has not
enough memory.

After removing the sourcelines for stable, everything wend fine.

It seems to be impossible to have sources for all three distributions.

Are there any limitations that I schould know of. 

Thomas.

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