My suggestion to the debian team would be to add a feature to dselect
that would flag certain packages as 'on hold', install as much as
possible, then go back and try to install the failed packages again. The
dependencies are all correct, but order of installing makes a difference
as
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it
retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing
a major upgrade).
Does the actual (1.4?) dselect/dpkg sort the
I just upgraded to 1.2 and had a similar experience. It took a little
time to iron things out but now everything (with the possible
exception of amslatex) is working OK.
First of all, thanks everyone for a remarkable package of software.
Summary of constructive comments:
1. Many packages
I think dpkg-ftp needs to sort the packages into dependency order before it
retrieves them (since it generally doesn't get them all at once when doing
a major upgrade).
Thanks
Bruce
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But before I get
to any of that, I want to say thanks.
Ditto.
While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
failed to install. [ but they installed correctly if you re-did
I've just completed an upgrade to Debian 1.2, and would like to
relate some details of the experience in the hopes that it might
help others who get stuck as I did. I also have some suggestions
for the maintainers at the end of this message. But before I get
to any of that, I want to say
While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
failed to install. The result of this was that after the first
round of attempted installations of the new/updated packages, the
ftp access method for dselect no longer worked.
This was very disconcerting!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just completed an upgrade to Debian 1.2, and would like to
relate some details of the experience in the hopes that it might
help others who get stuck as I did. I also have some suggestions
for the maintainers at the end of this message. But before I get
to any
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Scott J. Geertgens wrote:
While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100)
failed to install. The result of this was that after the first
When I first installed Debian, this really spooked me as well. I
managed to watch the messages as they flew
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