Re: installation notes

[heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)]

Guy Maor wrote:
: 
: On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
: >    The Packages files not always up to date.  This causes the dselect
: > tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the
: > ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon.  This
: > causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing file, and it fails.
: >    This in turn causes some dependencies to fail.
: 
: The scripts that update Packages run every day at about noon, PDT.  I
: typically install packages in the evenings, so you're right that the
: files are not always up-to-date.

Woah ... could you post that script?  (Since I not always get a new
Package file if I fetched a new package and since I don't want to fetch
all the updated *deb files only for the sake of a synced Package file.)


Heiko
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