Packages not installed

[Jeroen Akershoek]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:19:41 +0200
"Thomas Lange" <lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:00:24 +0200, Jeroen Akershoek <jeroena at sara.nl> said:
> 
>    > It seems that certain packages or combinations thereof break a
>    > FAI installation. 
> 
>     > I am using FAI 2.5.4, dhcp3 and a fai-bootcd with custom kernel and using the testing distribution
> 
> We had also some strange behaviour with testing. It seems that a long
> package list sometimes breaks the installation process. IMHO it a bug
> of apt-get or dpkg. A workaround may be to use the variable
> MAXPACKAGES. Set it in a class/*.var file (eg class/DEFAULT.var) to a
> value like 12. Then, only 12 packages are installed and configured at
> a time by apt-get.

Aha! Great, that seems to work, thanks

Is this an open issue/bug with apt-get/dpkg and known to the developers, or is it something that has always been accepted?

Kind regards,
 Jeroen

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