On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, John Hasler wrote:
From debian-policy:
hi John,
Thank you for this very useful reply. I think that it is a good
practice, when giving an information, to give also the way to get it,
(it is sometimes enough to give the link to the doc, when available)
I
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
Better to use a mirror. Take a look at the amount of bandwidth used
by the main site. Wow!
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/statistics.php
hi Bob,
Actually, the increase is impressive
I changed to one of the listed mirrors.
Right. You
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Actually, the increase is impressive
I changed to one of the listed mirrors.
Oh good.
Right. You removed it. It is a conffile. Therefore the system
respects your changes to that file. Including removing it. The
system views removing a
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
You said you removed the file. You didn't say you modified it.
Sorry, I forgot to say it.
I did both tests. Actually, I removed the file after seeing that it
was not replaced.
Of course asking is still the default for apt-get! But you said you
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
I understand this behaviour for a removed conffile. but not for a
modified one: I imagine that aptitude doesn't know whether this
conffile comes from a previous version or not.
The package management system knows what version was installed
previously and the checksums of
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 12:14:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
To replace also the modified files, I added in apt.conf
--force-confask;
I think there was a time where this was the default with apt-get
You must be confusing this with the regular behavior. From 'man dpkg'
(emphasis
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:
You must be confusing this with the regular behavior.
I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is
the regular behaviour, i.e. the default one.
Details are given for all --force-things, but I found nothing on what
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:59:50, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:
You must be confusing this with the regular behavior.
I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is
the regular behaviour, i.e. the default one.
Details are given for
From debian-policy:
E.1 Automatic handling of configuration files by dpkg
A package may contain a control information file called
conffiles. This file should be a list of filenames of
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
you have installed?
hi Bob,
it's difficult for me to understand this mess;
I am on Squeeze. apt version is
0.8.10.3+squeeze1
here is my source.list
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
you have installed?
it's difficult for me to understand this mess;
I am on Squeeze. apt version is
0.8.10.3+squeeze1
That looks normal.
deb
Looking in the log for cron.daily, I discovered the following problem:
/etc/cron.daily/apt contains a line:
apt-key net-update
which gives:
ERROR: no location for the archive-keyring given
the net-update command is accepted, although it is neither in the man nor
in apt-key
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
Looking in the log for cron.daily, I discovered the following problem:
/etc/cron.daily/apt contains a line:
apt-key net-update
I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
you have installed?
$ dpkg --status apt | awk
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