Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:18:48, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists. According to my email

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 nov 12, 13:22:14, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:18:48AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is)

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Morel Bérenger
There is also the solution of creating a file containing the needed line in /etc/apt/sources.list.d All files here are virtually added to the sources.list file by apt* when updating the package list. Le Mer 21 novembre 2012 5:34, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : This WFM (works for me): add the extra

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 03:43:16 Fred White wrote: I need to upgrade Opendkim version 2.0.1 but squeeze repository remains with 2.0.1 since I started have to add opendkim to my server and this version seem never to be upgraded. However, 2.6.8 is in Debian backports repository and since I

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists. According to my email client (KMail 1.9.10) he didn't. What thread did you

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists. According to my

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:27 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote:

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:27:34 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Quite. Exactly. And Chris said that he hijacked the thread. He did; Crypticmofo's Guide/Tools post. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Ralf Mardorf écrivait: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:27 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 10:39:46 François TOURDE wrote: Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Ralf Mardorf écrivait: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:27 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On

Mail client, threads, etc... [Was: Sources.list Question]

2012-11-21 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Lisi Reisz écrivait: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 10:39:46 François TOURDE wrote: [...] Lisi, consider change or upgrade your client ;) Obviously!! This is the first time, to my knowledge, that it has let me down, but one could say once is too often. :-(

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lars Noodén
On 11/21/12, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ... Gmail doesn't even know what a thread is. It goes purely by subject. ... Is there even any place to report such bugs with their mail client? Regards /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Mail client, threads, etc... [Was: Sources.list Question]

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 11:10:46 François TOURDE wrote: X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 As marked on his message. Do'h. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/21/12, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Gmail doesn't even know what a thread is. It goes purely by subject. Is there even any place to report such bugs with their mail client? Possibly

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, Lars. Sent to you in error. Resending to list. I fear that th ethreading may have been broken. I think that my KMail is definitely sickly. :-( On Wednesday 21 November 2012 11:16:09 Lars Noodén wrote: On 11/21/12, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ... Gmail doesn't even

OT: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 11:39 +0100, François TOURDE wrote: Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, Ralf Mardorf écrivait: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:27 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
by by threads. If I group by threads, but still sort by something else, e.g. by date, everything still is ok. If I hard select by threads, than Evolution does show that indeed Sources.list Question is part of Guide/Tools. A human mistake, to ignore something that's hidden in the headers and that isn't human

Re: OT: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 12:09:54 Ralf Mardorf wrote: The main problem still is, that humans on this list count to much on all kinds of automatic selection. An id shouldn't be that important as a subject is. We had thousands of years of natural evolution and now we try to be better than

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 12:23:00 Ralf Mardorf wrote: ignore something that's hidden in the headers and that isn't human readable, something we receive all the times, shouldn't cause chaos. It doesn't! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Mail client, threads, etc... [Was: Sources.list Question]

2012-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
François, a good idea to open a new subject, but keeping the id. Others might think, this is bad too. I say, use a client that enables to select, as you want the selection, even if people use the id in different ways. But it has powerfull possibilities, and is customisable using Lisp. May

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:18:48AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on mailing lists.

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Morel Bérenger
think people on linux's mailing lists should know that automated things are never perfect, and must be taken carefully. But I do not think it have anything related to Re: Sources.list Question. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Brad Alexander
things are never perfect, and must be taken carefully. But I do not think it have anything related to Re: Sources.list Question. Um, not to pour gasoline on a dying fire, but the OP was told it was rude to hijack another thread. But the bulk of the posts in this thread is about whether or not he

Difference between hijack and sub thread (was ... Re: OT: Sources.list Question)

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:09:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The main problem still is, that humans on this list count to much on all kinds of automatic selection. An id shouldn't be that important as a subject is. We had thousands of years of natural evolution and now we try to be better

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
). I think people on linux's mailing lists should know that automated things are never perfect, and must be taken carefully. But I do not think it have anything related to Re: Sources.list Question. Um, not to pour gasoline on a dying fire, but the OP was told it was rude to hijack

Sources.list Question

2012-11-20 Thread Fred White
Hello List, I am learning to help myself installing and updates some minor programs on my dedicated server and need to ask a couple of questions. I need to upgrade Opendkim version 2.0.1 but squeeze repository remains with 2.0.1 since I started have to add opendkim to my server and this

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This WFM (works for me): add the extra dist/section update install package remove the section You will be left with your package. Repeat if you need to upgrade just that package, either by install it again, or by [dist-]upgrade with regular sources.list entries just prior to upgrading for that

Re: Sources.list Question

2012-11-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 22:43 -0500, Fred White wrote: Hello List, I am learning to help myself installing and updates some minor programs on my dedicated server and need to ask a couple of questions. I need to upgrade Opendkim version 2.0.1 but squeeze repository remains with 2.0.1 since

Re: sources.list question

2003-07-05 Thread Wm . G . McGrath
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:29:10 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: :: I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, ::closer mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my ::location and setup, and

sources.list question

2003-07-04 Thread Wm . G . McGrath
Howdy all, I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that. Now I'd like to test each

Re: sources.list question

2003-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of mirrors on which to base the

Re: /etc/sources.list question

2002-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.17.0327 +0200]: On my laptop, when I am at home, I would like to use the Debian CDs 1-7, however at work I would prefer to use the mirrors at the local uni. Is there anyway to set which are my preferred sources or source order ? Just put

sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free Hi all, My sources list is above. I can't find pine, pico or smbpasswd. Is there something essential I messed up when I changed from stable to

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:36:28PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free Hi all, My sources list is above. I can't find pine, pico or smbpasswd. Is

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip] I remember pine is only available as source due to licensing issue and removed from binary distribution. If I were desparate, I might download source package and compile. (Which I believe comes with pico.) But, I will recommend you to move to mutt if you used pine or elm. As for

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free Hi all, My sources list is above. I can't find pine, pico or smbpasswd. Is

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:51:17PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] I remember pine is only available as source due to licensing issue and removed from binary distribution. If I were desparate, I might download source package and compile. (Which I believe comes with pico.) But, I

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
Interesting...I use vi on the server but the machine I'm configuring has a non-techie owner so needed somthing that offered at least a clue as to how to exit without rebooting the machine ( and yes - that's how he exitted vi first time!) Nano is fine. I just wanted the ^X stuff on the bottom to

Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)

2001-10-30 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies is generally sufficient, packages are snared over the 'Net. Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find documentation outlining this

RE: Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)

2001-10-30 Thread William De Cat
--- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies is generally sufficient, packages are snared over the 'Net. Well, I came here to learn, so where would I find documentation outlining this

RE: Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)

2001-10-30 Thread Hamma Scott
--- William De Cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personnaly, I install the base system from an old CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the distribution I want and then do an apt-get dist- upgrade. I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody. Right now I'm having a bit of a

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-28 Thread csj
On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:17, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...[ Once you've updated your sources lists from online and switched to Woody, you're likely going to find none of the packages on CD are considered up to date.  This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users install from CD --

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:52:50PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:17, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...[ Once you've updated your sources lists from online and switched to Woody, you're likely going to find none of the packages on CD are considered up to

RE: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-28 Thread Scott Henson
I'm just curious, what exactly are these files? My own mini-Debian installer consists of the following files: base2_2.tgz basecont.txt drivers.tgz kernel-config linux rescue.bin [2.88MB floppy version] It would help newbies with a little bandwidth to burn if somebody cooks up an

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-28 Thread csj
On Sunday 28 October 2001 13:04, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 02:52:50PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:17, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] It would help newbies with a little bandwidth to burn if somebody cooks up an official Internet

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-28 Thread csj
On Monday 29 October 2001 03:18, Scott Henson wrote: I'm just curious, what exactly are these files? My own mini-Debian installer consists of the following files: base2_2.tgz basecont.txt drivers.tgz kernel-config linux rescue.bin [2.88MB floppy version] It would help newbies

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:40:00AM -0700, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody after downloading all the packages for a dist-upgrade. I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot with the sources I was pulling from. I install from

apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-25 Thread Hamma Scott
I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody after downloading all the packages for a dist-upgrade. I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot with the sources I was pulling from. I install from a CD, and first was updating my potato installation, so I had all those options in the

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread Paul Scott
Craig Dickson wrote: will trillich wrote: # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz apt-setup has one of the least helpful man pages I've ever seen. Is this an

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread D. Hoyem
I found that this url was a very informative source for apt-get information http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/docs/sgml/apt-howto-en/online/index.html Don --- Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Dickson wrote: will trillich wrote: # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config:

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they? Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:54:50PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:05:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: In reply to:will trillich Quoting

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi... I was wondering if Debian had a spot on their web page where it listed the official available sources for the sources.list file? # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config:

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they? Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:50:57PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi... I was wondering if Debian

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Dickson
will trillich wrote: # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz apt-setup has one of the least helpful man pages I've ever seen. Is this an interactive program? It doesn't

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:52:39PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: will trillich wrote: # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz apt-setup has one of the least

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-23 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:05:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): # dpkg -S apt-setup base-config: /usr/sbin/apt-setup base-config: /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup.templates base-config:

/etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi... I was wondering if Debian had a spot on their web page where it listed the official available sources for the sources.list file? thanks Mike ~~Bill, Bill who?~~

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list question... Where are they?

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: I was wondering if Debian had a spot on their web page where it listed the official available sources for the sources.list file? The page for each release (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ and