[Slapt-get-user] skip package option when error 404 received

[nigel henry]

Sean. I'll have to work on this tomorrow as it's now past 1am in France. I'll 
put the dropline exclude back in. Rosegarden and libsigc++ were only put in 
exclude so that I could complete the upgrade. I'll mail Jason as to the 404 
problems to some packages. Thanks for the help and fixes. Nigel.




On Wednesday 11 May 2005 23:05, Sean Donner wrote:
> > Hi Sean. I've just removed the 2 items with the asterix before em. The
> > regex
> > problem has now disappeared.
>
> There was only one asterix that was in error, and that was the one all by
> itself on the very far left. The only other asterix I see in your EXCLUDE
> list is the one in the '.*-[0-9]dl$' section, and that one should be put
> back if you removed it.  In that 2nd case the asterix is modifying the '.'
> (another special regex character) which is fine.
>
> > Those 2 items with the asterix prefix were there with the default install
>
> Actually not quite.  The EXCLUDE line in the default install of slapt-get
> looks like the following:
>
> EXCLUDE=kernel-.*,alsa-.*,lilo,.*-[0-9]dl$,devs,aaa_elflibs
>
> So I conclude that what you did was remove the 'kernel-.*' section but
> only partially deleted the 'alsa-.*' section by accident.
>
> Now although 'libsigc++' does not seem to be giving you errors, we are
> still left with the fact that it may not be doing what you think it is.
> If slapt-get's regex engine uses 'Extended Regular Expressions' (ERE's),
> then that means '+' is taken as a repitition modifier (much like *) and
> NOT a literal plus sign.  Jason will have to comment on this, but most
> likly you will still have to escape out the +'s to get the effect you
> want.
>
> -Sean
>
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