Re: Knowing what to update on my Debian system?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed on them: Official Debian 1.3 1 Official Debian 1.3 2 Have I been ripped off? Is this the latest 1.3.1 CD, or an older version? How could I check? -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got some of those too. I can tell they're 1.3.1 CDs because they include XFree86 3.3. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Knowing what to update on my Debian system?
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Adam Klein wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed on them: Official Debian 1.3 1 This is the binary portion of the distribution. You use this CD to run dselect against for upgrades or installation. Official Debian 1.3 2 This is the source CD. You should only need to deal with files on this image if you have a need to build your own .deb file from the source. You would normaly only need to do this if you wished to modify the package from what is delivered on the 1 CD. Have I been ripped off? Is this the latest 1.3.1 CD, or an older version? How could I check? If you mount either of the above CDs, say on /cdrom, and look at the directories there, you will see a symlink named Debian-1.3.1 which tells you which revision of 1.3 you are looking at. -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got some of those too. I can tell they're 1.3.1 CDs because they include XFree86 3.3. This was the primary reason the additional point release was made. This was a fairly large change to the system. Hopefully further revisions to 1.3 will be of a more managable size. Adam Klein Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Knowing what to update on my Debian system?
On Aug 21, 1997, at 14:53, Bruce Perens wrote: A substantial part of that 67MB is the X change for Richard Stallman. XDM prints Debian GNU/Linux rather than Debian Linux. All of X got rebuilt to keep the release numbers consistent. I have no problem accomodating Richard, but I don't need to rush this change to every last user and make them spend money to get it, do I? That sounds fine to me. I'm just about to install Debian from my Cheapbytes CD. What I need to know is this: say I'm done with installing from CD, I have a functional Debian system, and I point the package installer to one of the ftp sites to browse and see what it suggests I should update (I gather I can do this, can't I?). Now, say the installer suggests upgrading packages A, B and C. Can I know (without downloading them, that is) what has been changed in those packages between the versions I have installed and the versions on the ftp site? For example, I'm not going to download 67 MB just to get Debian GNU/Linux rather than Debian Linux on xdm (which I don't use anyway). How do I go about this? By the way, the CDs I got from Cheapbytes have the following printed on them: Official Debian 1.3 1 Official Debian 1.3 2 Have I been ripped off? Is this the latest 1.3.1 CD, or an older version? How could I check? Bruce -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
