Re: slink-potato and missing packages

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 07:39:37AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote:
 So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i
 can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages
 missing (from the ftp site, according to apt).  Some of them look
 rather important (tcpd, etc).

  It may be that some of those packages have been moved around to
  different packages with different names. Persist on the upgrade and
  it'll probably sort itself out. Sometimes you have to play around with
  holding certain packages through one iteration of the upgrade, and
  then getting them on the next go 'round.
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slink-potato and missing packages

[Michael Stenner]

So I'm upgrading from slink to potato (while it's still unstable so i
can call myself adventurous) and there are a number of packages
missing (from the ftp site, according to apt).  Some of them look
rather important (tcpd, etc).

Two questions:

1) out of curiosity, how does this happen?

2) what do I do about it?  I can just put those packages on hold and
hope on dependency problems arise.  What's the standard solution?

Thanks,
 Michael
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