Bug#71664: IPs as opposed to domain name
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 at 13:36, Josip Rodin wrote about "Re: Bug#71664: IPs...":
> > and using slink's apt package works in conjunctino with this quote, how?
>
> But slink's APT (0.1.9 or what was it) is able to resolve to resolve IPs,
> AFAIR.
Can I use slink's APT to upgrade to potato?
The release notes tell me to specially go and download the new apt and
dpkg before I continue with the process.
> > "If you want to upgrade using CD-ROMs, or if you are upgrading from a
> > Debian GNU/Linux release 2.0 or earlier, you need the versions of apt and
> > dpkg available in the
> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato//main/upgrade-i386/
> >
> > I think we should provide the IPs rather than have people search.
>
> Before you install those packages, name resolving should be working.
It does. But it doesn't work for apt once I upgrade.
As such, we should provide IPs for people to stick into
/etc/apt/sources.list rather than providing them domain names that won't
work anyhow.
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Brock Rozen brozen@torah.org
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