Re: Bug#78033: apt: Missleading error message: Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'
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> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 rainer@rainer.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
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> > I just wantet to upgrade a slink system and after installing $ ls -l ~/apt_0.3.19_i386.deb
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> Read the release notes they tell you that the statically compiled APT can
> not do DNS lookups.
Then the documentation might be inconsistent:
I read section 3.3.1 in
ftp://ftp.debian.de/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/ch-upgrading.en.html
the sources.list file seems to need DNS.
Thanks.
Rainer
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