Re: I realize server space is precious.....
From: 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)
I don't think your problem is symlinks. I think you'll have to upgrade
your dpkg-ftp. Read on.
>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...
^^^^^
Here's the culprit. The filenames in the Packages file are relative to
"/debian", not "/debian/hamm". Thus your dpkg-ftp was looking for
/debian/hamm/dists/unstable/... instead of /debian/dists/unstable/...
You need to specify:
Enter debian directory: /debian
Enter space seperated list of distributions to get
[]: dists/unstable/main dists/unstable/contrib dists/unstable/non-free
Unfortunately, this won't work with dpkg-ftp 1.4.8, which is the one in
stable, due to bugs. You'll have to install 1.4.9 by hand; get it from:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.deb
dpkg-ftp 1.4.9 really ought to go into the next patch to stable, so
that at least -some- people will be able to upgrade hamm without having
to grub around manually with dpkg.
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