Re: H1 images

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> Isn't that something the tasksel was written for?  I don't think it is
> useful to reimplement solutions that have already been solved.

The last I picked up was that it was not fully functional yet.  Anyway apt
has to be working properly.  I had intended to implement tasksel, but it
is on the back-burner for the moment.
 
> > *** Checking out department.
> > The 1 gig partition limit still applies?
> > There are still no partitioning tools?
> > ppp still not functional?
> > apt not fixed?
> 
> Yesyesyesyes.  GNU parted will be available as soon as the Debian package
> will be updated to the current unstable or stable version.
>  
> >  Deleting "/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin" and running
> > "apt-get update" before running "apt-get install foo" works well for
> > people with the hardware problem with apt. 
> 
> No progress in getting more info about it?
> 
The only other info I have is that running apt-get update without removing
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin does not work, the system
locks.

Phil.

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