Re: Dselect working

To: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>
Cc: Debian-Hurd <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Dselect working
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 09 Sep 1999 22:45:40 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] u1h4sh3jxgr.fsf@opus.mit.edu>
In-reply-to: Brent Fulgham's message of "Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:55:42 -0700"
References: <[🔎] 21D757CECBD2D211AD5D00105A2974A7601D43@EXCHANGE>

Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:

> The upshot of this is that dpkg-ftp is now functional, so you can
> automatically update
> your system over ftp, rather than downloading everything by hand and then
> installing.

Of course, with my fixes to ftpfs, I just do the following:

settrans -c /ftp /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /

and then:

cd /ftp/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-hurd-i386 

and then I can directly dpkg -i without needing to worry further.

Thomas

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