[Scratchbox-users] Missing Packages.gz

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2007/6/21, Stefan Sassenberg <stefan.sassenberg at gmx.de>:
>> Kalle Vahlman wrote:
>> > 2007/6/21, Stefan Sassenberg <stefan.sassenberg at gmx.de>:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> My first problem is, that I cannot install the scratchbox packages
>> >> because the Packages.gz on http://scratchbox.org/debian is missing. 
>> I'm
>> >> new to debian but I found a similar problem in the list archive:
>> >
>> > Which version are you trying to install? All versions I looked at
>> > contained the package list...
>> >
>> The Maemo 2.2 tutorial recommends scratchbox 1.0.7 or do you mean the
>> apophis version? I don't know what apophis is.
> 
> Apophis is the release name of the 1.x-series of Scratchbox, 1.0.7 is
> an individual package number. For example, I think that in eg. Apophis
> r4 release includes 1.0.7, 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 versions of the individual
> packages.
> 
>> But is that a question of version? http://scratchbox.org/debian seems to
>> me to be the parent dir for any version on the server.
> 
> Yes, but from the news section on scratchbox.org front page:
> 
> "
> 2007-06-08 New debian repository policy
> 
> The scratchbox.org debian repository has changed. You can find
> different scratchbox releases available for you with "deb
> http://scratchbox.org/debian/ release-name main", for example:
> apophis-r4, 0.9.8. If you want the latest stable or the latest legacy
> version, use stable/legacy instead of release name. The old repository
> located at http://scratchbox.org/debian/ ./ is now obsolete. Update
> your sources.lists.
> "
That helped. Thank you very much, though you took away my tutorial. :-)

I will play a little with the debian installer, trying to help myself at 
this point. Maybe I come back to the list later. Thanks again, Kalle.

Stefan