Re: Disappearance of experimental packages in dselect

[Barry Hawkins <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com>]

On Dec 2, 2003, at 7:50 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 04:52, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> > 	The problem is that the xserver and xfree86 packages for 4.3.0.1 are
> > no longer appearing in dselect.  An initial install as I was learning
> > to use dselect ended up with mostly 4.3.0.1 packages but some 4.2.1
> > packages, so I purged all of the x-related packages.  Afterward, only 
> > a
> > couple of library packages like libmesa and another one from the
> > 4.3.0.1 packages in experimental are showing up.  Any idea what I 
> > might
> > be doing wrong?
>
> You're using dselect. :) Seriously though, if
>
> apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86
>
> shows the experimental version, I recommend trying an APT frontend like
> aptitude.
Michel,
	Thanks for the suggestion.  Here is the output of the command you 
suggested:

localhost:~# apt-cache policy xserver-xfree86
xserver-xfree86:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.2.1-14
  Version Table:
     4.3.0-0pre1v4 0
          1 ftp://ftp.debian.org main/binary-powerpc/ Packages
          1 http://http.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main 
Packages
     4.2.1-14 0
        500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        500 ftp://debian.mirrors.pair.com unstable/main Packages

	So, when one has two versions of a package, how does said one imply 
the installation of a particular version?  Also, what are those 
integers prefacing the URIs beneath the version numbers, 1 and 500?  I 
have to wait until tonight to install aptitude.  Is it really that much 
better at dealing with my issue than dselect?

Diligently,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
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