Re: New APT version

1998-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: This makes me wonder if we should think about dropping autoup as the preferred way to upgrade to hamm, and switch to apt. On the one hand, autoup has been tested pretty thouroghly and we shouldn't risk

New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I have compiled a version of APT for rex/bo. It was built on my 486 that runs some strange rex/bo mix and should work on every system from 1.2 onwards. For completeness I built up a matching version for hamm. http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0.pre9-0.1_i386.deb

Re: New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This version of apt is probably the most effective way to upgrade from bo/rex. It has been tested in several bo upgrades and has undergone simulated upgrades for 18 different configurations, including a few rex systems. This makes me wonder if we should think about

Re: New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This version of apt is probably the most effective way to upgrade from bo/rex. It has been tested in several bo upgrades and has undergone simulated upgrades for 18 different configurations, including a few rex systems.

Re: http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-08 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote: On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to switch? I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the possible sources. I have 8 sites already I have

Re: New APT Version

1998-04-08 Thread Juergen Menden
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/ ^ better use nonus.debian.org jjm -- Juergen Menden at work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +49 (89) 289 - 22387 private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-07 Thread Steve Hsieh
On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to switch? I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the possible sources. I have 8 sites already I have enabled http transfers on our mirror as well...

Re: http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-07 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, Apr 7, 1998 3:13 pm -0400 Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to switch? I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the possible sources. I have