Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: It is not this simple; in fact, I think there's an out-and-out bug. I'll report it when I have some time to waste. It is a bug with whoever typed dpkg-scanpackages because they did it wrong. deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free Then

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free Then apt-get update looks for /usr/local/src/debs/dists/localdebs/{main,non-free}/binary-i386/Packages but apt-get install pysol looks

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: dpkg-scanpackages binarydir overridefile [pathprefix] Packages binarydir is the name of the binary tree to process (for example, contrib/binary-i386). It is best to make this relative to the root of the

package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
What are the packaging frontends (dselect in particular) supposed to do when 2 sources from sources.list provide different version numbers of the same package? I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. I

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
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Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the packaging frontends (dselect in particular) supposed to do when 2 sources from sources.list provide different version numbers of the same package? Don't know for sure, but based on experience I'd say they use the latest (and greates?)

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Olaf == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: itz I have a potato system, but I downloaded a couple of upgraded itz packages from woody and placed them in a local mirror directory. itz I generated the Packages files with dpkg-scanpackages. That went itz fine, so I added a deb file: line for