Re: Woody install problem
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:29:22AM -0700, Peter Kozar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after couple of recent linux installs i had to face a
> minor problem with the installation procedure.
> Using the woody disks to install a system, I used ftp
> download for base packages.
> When it is done it provides the choice of using
> tasksel, dselect or neither of them.
> Unfortunately with tasksel and dselect it is
> impossible to finish the installation properly in the
> default case because apt is configured to use the
> "stable" link on the servers which points to the
> potato distribution.
> Of course it results problems unsolvable dependencies
> since installing the selected packages in some cases
> would require to remove the installed base system.
>
> I would not consider it as a big problem since the
> manual workaround is quite easy, but it could be quite
> annoying for newbies.
>
> Is it a problem simply with the apt config in the
> install package, or just the link has been changed on
> the servers too early before woody actually would hit
> the stable state ?
This is a known problem, about 6 bugs have been filed already.
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