Bug#71664: IPs as opposed to domain name
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Brock Rozen wrote:
> > > and using slink's apt package works in conjunctino with this quote, how?
> >
> > But slink's APT (0.1.9 or what was it) is able to resolve to resolve IPs,
> > AFAIR.
>
> Can I use slink's APT to upgrade to potato?
>
> The release notes tell me to specially go and download the new apt and
> dpkg before I continue with the process.
You answered your own question :) Theoretically, you could do it, but that
version is buggier, from what we've heard.
> > > "If you want to upgrade using CD-ROMs, or if you are upgrading from a
> > > Debian GNU/Linux release 2.0 or earlier, you need the versions of apt and
> > > dpkg available in the
> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato//main/upgrade-i386/
> > >
> > > I think we should provide the IPs rather than have people search.
> >
> > Before you install those packages, name resolving should be working.
>
> It does. But it doesn't work for apt once I upgrade.
>
> As such, we should provide IPs for people to stick into
> /etc/apt/sources.list rather than providing them domain names that won't
> work anyhow.
As I said, apt should upgrade the static copy of itself to the dynamic copy.
If it doesn't, I can put something like 'apt-get install apt' in the release
notes...
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