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Old 01-21-2005, 08:47 PM   #1
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swaret is downgrading stuff?


neverming. my swaret.conf was saying I had slack 9.1 so it was installing those packages. I fixed it and it's good now.

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Old 01-21-2005, 08:51 PM   #2
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odd

Is your version set to 9.1 in /etc/swaret.conf?

Your right, that is strange. I never trusted swaret though, it crashed my system a couple of times.

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Old 01-21-2005, 09:09 PM   #3
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you beat me to it. I edited my post. You were exactly right. Thanks!
 
Old 01-21-2005, 09:23 PM   #4
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Heh, no problem. Good luck with it.

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