Re: Information about updates?

[Bill Hogan <bhogan@rahul.net>]

Matthew Swift writes:
 > 
 > "dftp" is what you're looking for.  in the /tools or /contrib
 > subdirectory on the ftp sites.  the author is working on a perl
 > version, and on integrating his program with dselect; meanwhile I find
 > that dftp is quite satisfactory.  Be careful using any packages
 > from debian-1.0, however, since it is possible to get a non-working
 > mixture of elf and aout packages.  
 > 

    Is it possible to use `dftp' to check for the existence of such
conflicts?

    Specifically, if I have what I intended to be a Debian-0.93 setup,
can `dftp' tell me if I have inadvertently nitroduced a Debian-1.0
package?

    Bill