Re: new apt source available

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:

    Jeff> The following packages needed upgrading:

    Jeff> apt debconf debhelper links perl tidy

    Jeff> perl was annoying to upgrade, as I had to butcher my status
    Jeff> file to get some dependancies filled.

Did you have any problems with sysvinit?

    Jeff> I have tested: apt-get source, apt-get install, and apt-get
    Jeff> remove using the 'ftp' method.  They all appear to work
    Jeff> within normal parameters.

I have been trying the http method. It does not seem to work properly
via a squid cache:

huey:~# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packages
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object

direct access is OK:

huey:~# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Release
Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages [4758B]
Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release [94B]
Fetched 4852B in 47s (103B/s)
Reading Package Lists... 23%

[oops - I think it has crashed the computer... reset and manually run
fsck.ext2 to fix ext2 errors, try again...]

huey:~# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
huey:~#

looks better now...

huey:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  bsdutils: Depends: sysvinit (>= 2.59-2) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
huey:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bsdutils
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  bsdutils
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 20  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 104kB will be freed.
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I think I will have to play around with my status file to fix this.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>