Re: Unstable release
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I usually use apt to fetch via ftp, but pointing it at a source archive
> should do the same thing. Are you using it as a dselect backend, or are
> you doing something else entirely?
I'm using it via dselect. I'll have to try that once more to be sure that
it really didn't follow soft-links, but at least it looked like it didn't
as I got exactly the same error-messages that I got when downloading
manually with ncftp.
> Wait, you mean you're trying to actually *install* potato? I didn't realize
Yep.. =)
> that boot-floppies even worked again! I think it's usually the case that a
> from-scratch install doesn't work until the last minute. I know a Slink
Ok, didn't know that. I haven't been using Debian for that long. Switched
from Stampede (that I've been running since one of the first betas) in April
or something.
> I do it with a fairly simple approach. I install the base Slink system, but
> on the reboot (after setting a root password :) ) I edit /etc/apt/sources.list
> and change all references to "stable" to "unstable". I then proceed as before.
> It may be that the archive is in a weird state at the moment; I haven't done
> this for a few months. I recommend just installing a small set of packages and
> then adding stuff by hand in dselect (but I recommend this when setting a new
> stable system up as well -- the metapackage/task system is too broken)
I'll try that next time.
When I installed the last one (with slink), I actually did something
similar. I installed the base system with slink, and downloaded the
whole potato distribution via ftp, and started adding packages manually
with dpkg. This has the drawback that I have to use various --force*
options to make it replace the older versions of libraries and other
things. Right now it runs ssh, perl, etc from the potato distribution.
/Staffan
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