Re: Problems with testing
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:26:35PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> > What do you get if you type "dpkg -s apt" and
> Hmmm, this could be the source of the problem!
> I'm using an inofficial apt because there was a problem with our firewall.
> It is:
>
> ~> dpkg -s apt
> Package: apt
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: standard
> Section: base
> Installed-Size: 1872
> Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
> Version: 0.4.8
> Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7)
> Provides: libapt-pkg3.1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10
> Suggests: dpkg-dev
<SNIP>
> Perhaps I should ask Jason Gunthorpe if he has a backport which fixes
> the following problem also in apt-0.3.19:
>
> > APT 0.4.8 has the fix, it should work. You proxy server is stripping
> > content-length headers. Tsk Tsk
>
> > You can get it for i386 potato at:
>
> > deb http://people.debian.org/~jgg apt/
>
> Curiousely enough I'm using apt-0.4.8 on several potato machines
> without any problem.
If all you need is debconf to work with apt-0.4.x ...
apt-get source debconf
cd debconf-x.x.xx
vi apt/Makefile
change CXXFLAGS at top of Makefile so it includes this:
-DAPT_COMPATIBILITY=986
fakeroot debian/rules binary
cd ../
dpkg -i debconf_x.x.xx*deb
Problem solved.
Been running this way for months, keep an eye on changes to debconf
however, Joey H updates it quite frequently.
HTH
Gordon Sadler
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