Re: Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-08 Thread Christian Hudon 
On 6 Aug 1996, Andy Guy wrote:

 Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Guy: could you move dpkg-ftp into unstable, this would avoid these
 problems.

I agree... IMHO, the current version of dpkg-ftp is certainly good enough
for 'unstable'. And since we're including it with the base disks now,
it seems illogical to hide the .deb in project/experimental.

  Christian

Re: Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-07 Thread Al Youngwerth 
I also just purged dpkg-ftp accidentally but I can't find it anywhere! Is 
dpkg-ftp only in the base package included on the boot floppies?

Al Youngwerth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-07 Thread Andy Guy 
Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I also just purged dpkg-ftp accidentally but I can't find it
 anywhere! Is dpkg-ftp only in the base package included on the boot
 floppies?

look in project/experimental.

Guy: could you move dpkg-ftp into unstable, this would avoid these
problems.

Andy.

Re: Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-06 Thread Christian Hudon 
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Rich Deighton wrote:

 The other day I removed the package dpkg-ftpd (the perl script) as
 dselect reported it as an 'Obselete/Local package'; this seemed sensible
 at the time, however I now can't utilise ftp as an install method. As I
 understand it there is an alternative way of doing this... but I
 couldn't find any packages on a debian mirror, and I'm not sure how to
 integrate the dftp-1.5 script I found in the tools directory.

'Obsolete/Local' is just dselect's way of saying it found the package
installed on your system but not in the Debian distribution. You certainly
don't need to uninstall packages in there... unless you want to, that is.

Just reinstall dpkg-ftp and the 'ftp' method of dselect will work again.

  Christian

Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-05 Thread Rich Deighton 
The other day I removed the package dpkg-ftpd (the perl script) as
dselect reported it as an 'Obselete/Local package'; this seemed sensible
at the time, however I now can't utilise ftp as an install method. As I
understand it there is an alternative way of doing this... but I
couldn't find any packages on a debian mirror, and I'm not sure how to
integrate the dftp-1.5 script I found in the tools directory.

Pointers to documentation regarding this or even a solution would be
much appreciated.

Rich
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