On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:12:25PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> emdebian-tools is not part of Etch and is not designed to work with
> Etch, only with Lenny or Sid. Were you attempting a backport?
No, just wanted to look at emdebian =) . Hm, is it mentioned
anywhere that etch is not supported?
> The solution is to upgrade to testing or unstable which will, in
> turn, require an addition to /etc/apt/sources.list to add a suitable
> mirror.
Ok, I'll move to lenny then.
> If I do change postinst, it may only be to disable emdebian-tools if
> such a system is detected.
At least as a temporary solution, I think.
> True, postinst does need to be updated rather than simply dying but I
> don't see any way of supporting a cdrom-only (even DVD-only)
> installation.
>
> > Should postinst be changed to something like this, maybe?
>
> I'm not sure that any form of non-internet system can be supported in
> emdebian-tools.
>
> Can you send me the output of 'apt-cache policy' for your setup?
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