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Re: Bug#25200: apt: more apt troubles



OK, I'm talking about apt 0.0.17-1bo0 which i got yesterday, that's
Fri Jul 30 1998 from the next mirror. It's the same version as there is
under:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/
and under:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-i386/

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> 
> > Package: apt
> > Version: N/A
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > - bo system
> > - I get apt from debian mirror and install with dpkg
> 
> > - I try to read /usr/doc/apt which is a bit bizarre since it's in some
> >   "text" format which gives me number at every end of line.
> 
> Eh? guide.text.gz seems perfectly well formed to me. Please be more
> specific..

p-sargans# zcat /usr/doc/apt/guide.text.gz |head

                             APT User's Guide16
                             ----------------
                     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>32
            $Id: guide.sgml,v 1.9 1998/04/29 04:34:34 jgg Exp $51

0.1 Abstract12
------------

     This document provides an overview of how to use the the APT package68
Broken pipe

See what I mean? zcat |head works well with other ascii.gz files though
btw.

> > - I try to do atp-get update
> > - apt bails out because it can not access http://ftp1.us.debian.org. ftp1
> >   says "you are not allowed to access /debian"
> 
> Either ftp1 had a transient error or you are not giving the exact error
> message. Judging by your comments you have an old version of APT that is
> set to use frozen as a distribution, you will have to change the
> sources.list to point to stable, not frozen.

p-sargans# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/

> Right now ftp1 works perfectly fine for me...

p-sargans# wget http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian
--10:18:29--  http://ftp1.us.debian.org:80/debian
           => `debian'
Connecting to ftp1.us.debian.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, fetching headers... done.
10:18:29 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

p-sargans# date
Fri Jul 31 10:18:40 CEST 1998

> I have an informal list of http mirrors at
> http://www.debian.org/~jgg/mastersourcelist.

If I knew who's the one ("bob") who's maintaining the README-update I'd
tell him to include that list. Is it Brandon Mitchell
<bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>? It would have spared a few hours. Otherwise one has
to have a kind of visionary capabilities to divine out where to mirrors
possibly could be.

> > - of course apt bails out because it needs libmd5-perl_1.7-1.deb
> > - so I go to my debian mirror and get it manually (I still don't understand
> >   what the idea of an automatical update procedure is if there are steps that
> >   have to be done manualy - what for?)
> > - big surprise, libmd5-perl_1.7-1.deb needs libc6 which I don't have because
> >   I am not updated, which I can't do because the update program needs libc6 ->
> >   circular death.
> > - I go to the mirror and try to get the old libmd5-perl_1. Big surprise,
> >   it's not there anymore because bo has been removed.
> 
> Get APT for bo 0.1.4 at http://www.debian.org/~jgg It's FTP method does
> not require these perl modules and will run fine on your mirror with no
> additional setup. I think it also has a more correct sources.list, though
> it still may be a bit behind for non-us...
> None of these issues are APT bugs persay so I am closing the bug report.

Except maybe for the text "bug".

> Where did you download this old version of apt from? I will see that it is
> updated to the new version.

It's on the main site and on every mirror. See the URL above.

Updating would be really wonderful! ;v)

Thanks a lot!!!
*
t

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