Re: I realize server space is precious.....

[Manong Dibos <jwalther@citytel.net>]

*sigh*.   Ok, I finally have my Packages list updated, which really really
rocks, coz now I see a whole bunch of new packages which Ive wanted to
install anyways...

And here is what I get.  symlinks AGAIN.  Aggggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!! <g>
All 30 packages that I wanted to upgrade/install, to the *last one* was a
symlink  (sigh)

Guys, promise me, Diety wont have these problems, ok?  It wont barf on ftp
symlinks? 

Here it is:

Do you want to download the required files [y]:
Downloading files... use ^C to stop
Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to /debian/hamm...
getting: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/tk4.2_4.2p2-7.deb (525900)
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/tk4.2_4.2p2-7.deb: No such file OR
directory.

getting: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/bin86_0.12.0-4.deb (56326)
dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/bin86_0.12.0-4.deb: No such file OR
directory.

getting: dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/text/pstotext_1.5-2.deb
(26496)
dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/text/pstotext_1.5-2.deb: No such file
OR directory.

getting: dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/devel/lclint_2.2a-1.deb
(602926)


and yada yada yada for a whole bunch more packages.

I know the files are there, when I ncftp in, here is what I get:

> pwd

Current remote directory:
/ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel

> ls -l lc*

Warning: cannot use both flags and wildcards with ls, using dir instead.
lrwxrwxrwx    1 10248    1608          44 Apr 18 12:40
lclint-doc_2.2a-1.deb ->
../../binary-all/devel/lclint-doc_2.2a-1.deb
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608      602926 Apr 16 05:57 lclint_2.2a-1.deb



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