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Debian Distribution Package Maintainer (v1.1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Oct 16 14:37:36 1995
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 22:33:19 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>
Subject: Debian Distribution Package Maintainer (v1.1)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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My "Debian Package Maintainer" v1.1 is now available on ftp.debian.org
and (hopefully) all of the mirror sites. It can be found as:
contrib/tools/dftp-1.1.csh
>From the "dftp -whatsnew" command...
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** Updated packages (those installed for which a new version is available)
are now moved under "old packages" during future runs if they are not
retrieved. Previously, updated packages would appear repeatedly until
they were retrieved.
** The "unpack" action has been altered to automatically install a new
"dpkg" program first and by itself if one has been retrieved. Unpacking
of all other packages has been accelerated by passing all names to 'dpkg'
on one command line instead of calling it individually for each one.
** The "unpack" action now installs (i.e. unpack + configure) all packages.
** A new "--exclude" option is allowed to specify directories you do not
want to check for new packages. Names provided here will match anywhere
within the full pathname. To make directory names relative to the root
directory of the Debian distribution, prefix them with a caret (^).
** The packages description file ("Packages-Master") is now included in the
archive file only if the "-tardesc" option is given.
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For those not familiar with dftp, here is a quick description from "dftp -help"
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The purpose of this program is to make it easy to keep your local installation
of Linux consistent with the Debian distribution available on many FTP sites.
It does this by maintaining its own list of all the packages you have
retrieved and comparing it against the manifest on the FTP site. Any packages
on the FTP site that differ from the installed version, as well as any
unretrieved packages are presented to you to choose from. All selected
packages are then fetched from the FTP site and made available for you to
install.
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Known bugs:
- - If running 'dftp' for the first time on a system as "dftp getlist scaninst",
the "getlist" action print many error messages and may die completely. No
problem, though, just do a "dftp scaninst" after that and then things should
work normally from then on.
Please send lots of comments, kudos, gripes, and suggestions to bcwhite@bnr.ca.
Brian
( bcwhite@bnr.ca )
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
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