Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken

[Martin Bishop <marbis@subdimension.com>]

Darxus [darxus@Op.Net] wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Bishop wrote:
> 
> 
> They don't keep old versions around.  If you install your packages via
> apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> Check there first.  There's a command "apt-get autoclean" that deletes
> everything but the most recent copies of all packages.  I always do that
> before apt-get upgrading, and wait till I know new stuff is stable to
> delete old packages.

I had a feeling they didn't keep old versions around, but I was
desperate enough to search anyway :)
 
I thought that "apt-get autoclean" will delete everything from
/var/cache/apt/archives automagically. I use "apt-get clean"
and normally I don't do that too often unless I need more room.

> Think about it, if they just kept the current version, and the one before
> it, it would double their storage requirements.
> 
> I uploaded the packages to here:
> 
> http://www.op.net/~darxus/libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb
> http://www.op.net/~darxus/wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb
> 
> Let me know when you're done with them, I'll probably take them down soon.
> They took me over quota.
I've just finished d/ling them a while ago. I really appreciate you
using your personal space to put these packages up for me. Thank you.
 
> What I ended up doing was downloading & compiling the latest source.  It's
> more recent than the latest .deb.  And it has a make uninstall.

I guess I could do that, but I'm lazy by nature :P

Thanks again.
MB