Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>> Debian Release: 2.0 Kernel Version: Linux nowhere 2.0.33 #8 Fri
>> May 8 10:28:28 CEST 1998 i586 unknown
Dan> There's your problem! Your hostname seems to be 'nowhere',
Dan> which is not a legitimate hostname. I've never found a
Dan> really good solution, but the best seems to be to give
Dan> yourself some iminary hostname and add it to /etc/hosts - but
Dan> it has to have more than one segment.
It's only part of the problem. The problem is that an internal Perl
module that guesses your FQDN doesn't guess right on some machines
(depending on what's in /etc/hosts).
There's a patch in CVS to work aroudn this problem that will be in
apt 0.0.18.
Ben
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