Re: [Synaptic-devel] Distribution selection

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Michael Vogt <address@hidden>:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:16:50PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> [..]
> > > I know that the "release" scheme is more flexible than just having
> > > "stable/testing/unstable" :) My problem was that I wanted to see if it
> > > works and I have no idea right now how I can make libapt to tell me
> > > what releases are available (and what origions, that might be nice as
> > > well). Do you have any idea Panu? Or maybe Gustavo? 
> > 
> > Hmm, surprisingly straightforward actually :) The following code snippet
> > (tested in apt-cache policy routine) prints out the known components
> > along with their associated releases (archives) and origins:
> [usefull code deleted]
> 
> Thanks for this hints. I used this snippet and I have a new version of
> synaptic that lets you choose the "archive" bit under
> "Preferences/Advanced". 

Cool! Now it's dynamic please enable it for RPM as well as it is useful for us
folks too :)

> 
> The code is available at:
> http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/testing/synaptic-0.45pre2.tar.gz
> 
> It fixes most (all?) of the bugs that where reported against pre1. So
> anyone who has some spare time is very welcome to test the new
> pre-release. 

There seems to be some wings-stuff still left:

address@hidden synaptic-0.45]$ ./configure
...
checking for iconv... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating common/Makefile
config.status: creating wings/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: wings/Makefile.in
address@hidden synaptic-0.45]$
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    - Panu -