Re: Problems with 1.2.1
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've
> been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware and
> two versions of red-hat. All in all I'm very pleased with Debian (and I am especially attracted by debian's general design philosophies), however I'm a little surprised at the state of what are called "stable" releases.
> Now, my hard-drive collapsed a few days ago, so I've had the please of
> doing a fresh install of 1.2.1. Unfortunately I had the ncftp problem another
> person struck a few days ago, that is I used ncftp to get the distribution and ncftp seems not to like symlinks in its recursive mode, therefore I downloaded all of rex then downloaded rex-updates and moved the updates into the rex tree (along with the packages.gz file from rex-fixed). Its possible that this butchery has been reflected in some (but not all) of the problems listed below.
>
If you are using dselect to do the install you will find many things
broken by the method you used. The principle thing that you broke, by
integrating new packages in by hand in the "Packages" files. This file is
what dselect uses to resolve dependencies and choose packages.
Dpkg (maybe it's in dpkg-dev) provides dpkg-scanpackages for
reconstructing Packages files. You will need an override file from the
indices directory as well in order to use this.
Once you have done this, it would be informative to know what else caused
problems.
Luck,
Dwarf
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