On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:50:01AM +1000, Michael Fox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Problem I am having is with packages. I have an old machine that is still
> running Slink, and at this time I do not wish to upgrade it.
>
> With potato changing to stable, I have since modified my sources.list to
> reflect the fact that stable is not what I want, but rather slink
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian slink main etc etc
>
> I then do a apt-get update and to update my package lists.
>
> This works somewhat fine, the problem happens when I wish to install a
> package for slink,
>
> apt-get install package
>
> At this point it fails badly, because the stuff that I downloaded with
> apt-get update, all the paths in this file contain the path
> blah/dists/stable/binary-i386-package/net/ntop-3-4.deb
>
> Which means it will fail, as stable of course is now the potato tree,
> shouldn't the package list files change to reflect the codename of the
> release, rather then stable. As I wouldn't be having this problem.
>
> Can anyone tell me if the maintainers expect to update the package lists
> files for slink, so that the paths are right, as since potato is out, it
> FAILS big time.
>
> Please email me anyone if you can help me out.
from debian-mirrors------------------------------
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:31:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
To: debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Potato Release and Slink
Hi,
As you know probably know, Debian 2.2 has been released. This means we
will be moving our previous release to the archive site,
archive.debian.org.
If you are mirroring Debian and wish to keep a copy, please move slink out
of the archive and and an exclusion rule to your mirror script. I am
tentatively schedualing slink's erasure for Thursday the 24th.
Finally, please be sure that your slink package files have been updated so
they do not have a reference to stable in the File: section. Fixed
versions are propogating right now, and it may take a day.
Thanks,
Jason
Debian Mirroring
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