Hi all, Please CC me if somebody decides to respond. As somebody who is interested in debdelta I was happy to see http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2011/05/msg00006.html .
Coincidentally I just published a blog post about the same http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/aptitude-debian-unstable-and-ubuntu/ which I had been thinking for quite sometime now. Anyway while I'm no power user, please correct me as I see the things I have to do. a. $ sudo aptitude install -t experimental debdelta b. gksudo leafpad (or whatever favorite text editor) /etc/debdelta/sources.conf , see if this file is there, if not add/append it. [main debian archive] Origin=Debian Label=Debian delta_uri=http://debdeltas.debian.net/debian-deltas c. Change my /etc/apt/sources.list say from deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free to deb http://ftp.linux.it/ sid main contrib non-free just to take an example. d. Then do $sudo aptitude update and then $sudo debdelta-upgrade . Now while the three above steps seem to be okish, I am not really certain of the fourth. What I usually do is $sudo aptitude safe-upgrade as well as $sudo aptitude dist-upgrade and then see which of them have either some grave/serious bugs which might make my desktop not so stable ( via apt-listbugs) Finding the least costly/safe way I usually end up doing $sudo aptitude install foo (where foo is/are the package/s with the upgrade) and aptitude does the necessary thing. How would I do the same with debdelta-upgrade ? Also how would it work with say something like deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-5.0 Should I be using the normal aptitude installation or upgrade paths in such a case ? Looking forward to info. and any clarifications or something that I might have mentioned wrong/incorrectly. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
