Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Firefox listed in Aptitude as new package

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:52 -1000
Tor at Shared Genius <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:25:43 -1000
> > Tor at Shared Genius <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >> I have noticed for a while, but not really paid attention, that
> >> firefox and firefox-3.0 have both shown up as new packages, along
> >> with some supporting packages.  Is this deliberate, a mistake that
> >> re-introduced it, or something else?
> >>
> > Firefox is not in the archive, that I can see.
> > 
> > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/main/f/
> > http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/universe/f/
> > kk
> 
> However, it appears that while the package doesn't exist, the listing
> slipped into the DeltaH-security main package list[1].  Seems like if
> it doesn't exist then it shouldn't show up in the package manager
> either. Probably a low priority issue, though.
> 
> Tor
> 
> [1] Please note that packages firefox-3.0 and others are also listed,
> but not copied here.  Taken from
> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/dists/deltah-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

We have had some filesystem issues, so when they are resolved I'll
check what causes this. Its possible an rsync failed (due to said
issues), so the packages file is old.
kk


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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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