[MLUG] gnome2 for woody

[Patrick Kiernan]

Padraig at Linux.ie wrote:

> Patrick Kiernan wrote:
>
>> Well hello all,
>>
>> Do many think they will be able to attend the meeting this Friday? It 
>> would be nice to build up the numbers like before.
>>
>> Does anyone have gnome2 debs for woody? My system needs the following 
>> packages updated:
>>
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>
>
> installed you mean

hmm I pasted this ??

>
>> 387 packages upgraded, 135 newly installed, 13 to remove and 10  not 
>> upgraded.
>
>
> what about the upgrade list?

Dunno..

>
>> Need to get 263MB/264MB of archives. After unpacking 189MB will be used.
>>
>> Basically that amounts to nice a figure as you see at the bottom 
>> especially for a dial-up connection to be downloading. If any of you 
>> with fast connections at work have these packages download, I would 
>> be grateful if you could hop them on cd for me.
>
>
> Well I checked your NEW list against woody and it didn't match
> so I presume your syncing against unstable rather than woody?
> However even unstable doesn't have the following from your list:

Well I dunno, here's my sources.list:


deb http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
non-free

deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2

>
>     libgnomeprint2-0
>     libgnomeprint2-data
>     libgnomeprintui-0
>
> Anyway I've downloaded the packages you specified (70MB)
> from unstable using the following script on red hat.

Nice one :)

>
> ------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> mirror="http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian"
> release="unstable"
>
> mkdir -p $release
> wget $mirror/dists/$release/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> gzip -dc Packages.gz |
> while read field rest; do
>     if [ "$field" == "Package:" ]; then
>         package="$rest"
>     elif [ "$field" == "Filename:" ]; then
>         if grep -q ^$package\$ packages; then
>             (cd download; wget $mirror/$rest)
>         fi
>     fi
> done
> ------------------------------

Nice script, very clever :) That gets all unstable packages and not just 
gnome2 ones.. right? (just curious)

>
> I'll try and get to the meeting tomorrow with the CD
> (If you have a laptop that would be even handier).
> I've also got the latest redhat beta (8.0.94) which
> I currently use to give away.

Thanks very much for burning them debs. I don't have a laptop :/

>
> If someone was travelling home through Edgeworthstown
> there would be a much bigger chance of me being able
> to attend.

I live in the town myself. Hope you make it though.

Regards,
Patrick.