Hello Uz, * On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:26:53AM +0100 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > > > Is there a way to check > > > which packages are available without going through all the apt hassle? A > > > simple directory listing with download facility would have saved me 15 minutes > > > of work. > > > > Well, http://debian.trikaliotis.net/dists/stable/Release shows that I > > only have i386 architecture. > > > > This is also backed up by > > http://debian.trikaliotis.net/dists/stable/contrib/, which only shows a > > binary-i386 directory. > > Knowing of and checking these files needs intimate knowledge about the > structure of .debs and .deb repositories, which I currently don't have. You're right. The packages themselves can be found on http://debian.trikaliotis.net/cc65/. You can download them and install them with $ dpkg -i <filename> > So I > hoped for something more obvious. This is my "use Spiros repository" story: > > * Add the repo line to the package manager. Which complained, because the > repo wasn't trusted. [...] Yes, that's right. You would have been able to install cc65 even without that, though. > * Trying to read key 2AF47E44 as root as described on Spiros page does not > work, because root doesn't have a PGP setup. Oh... I think I did not change it here, and it worked out of the box. > * Checking PGP as normal user, it says, key 2AF47E44 cannot be found on > wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net. So I'm trying a few other key servers. Found the key > on wwwkeys.pgp.net. I added this location as a hint to my page. > You may imagine that I was a little bit frustrated that after all this hassle > the repo didn't have the packages I wanted. Indeed. > Having an easily accessible list > of packages, or the PGP key as a downloadable file would have saved me quite > some trouble. I added the key to the Debian page. In fact, it was always there, but there was no link on my page. Thank you very much for this bug report! :) > Just out of curiosity: Sites like rpmforge offer RPM files both for browsing > and download and as a repository that can be added to yum. Isn't that possible > with .deb repositories? Well, you can download them from the location as stated above. I added the locations to the web page and also added a small statement how they can be installed with dpkg. Of course, dpkg does not resolve dependencies. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Mon Oct 26 20:35:35 2009
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