[Aptitude-devel] Trying to install apt version 0.8.16~exp13 as it solved one of my issues .

[Daniel Hartwig]

2012/3/9 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> By looking at #639290 (which you mentioned last time as motivation for
>> this) I can see some users have hinted at a work around:
>>
>> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639290#224
>> [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639290#229
>>
>> I suggest to try that if you have not already.
>
> Thank you, have done but also good to have it in record.
>

Did that fix work for you?


> Actually the motivation now has changed for apt has changed ;-)
>
> Please see # bug 657902 which has been closed by the new apt version.
>
> The only thing I could not understand from Joerg's Jasper's statement
> [1] was this :-
>
> alternatively this will just break our archive, lets see in next  'dinstall...'
>
> the quotes around dinstall are for emphasis, what does dinstall mean, anyone ?
>

Dinstall is a pet name for the process that updates the debian archive
throughout the day.[1]

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#incoming-system