Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Woody is frozen and will shortly become stable release. Whenever you get your woody CDs, after installation you'd better use apt-get update to update the packages list from the headquarter and apt-get upgrade to upgrade necessary packages. Also a Debian user in Tainwan

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:30:09PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much did woody change in the last 50 days? i.e. at our first meeting I took the 8 woody CD's marked 2002.5.14. Since then, mostly security updates, a dpkg change to enable --force-overwrite by default, and so on. The dpkg

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread kindly_remove_this_part_first_jidanni
P Whenever you get your woody CDs, after installation you'd better use P apt-get update to update the packages list from the headquarter and P apt-get upgrade to upgrade necessary packages. what if the debian system is remote, no phone line. Can I somehow first tell headquarters that I want to

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:58:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what if the debian system is remote, no phone line. Can I somehow first tell headquarters that I want to download all the changes from 5/14/02 to today onto some file, and then take that file to the remote system? There's a

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], I suggest you bring a copy of Debian ftp archive in the laptop or hard disk drive and put it in the LAN as the central installation source. It's about 8.4 GB total. I think the InstallFest may need a ftp archive in the LAN for faster installation. If you put one in the