On 12/31/06, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:21:19PM +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> Hello list, I got me a VPS from gplhost.com.
>
> First thing I did was installing Debian sarge on it, second thing I
> did was playing smarty pants and adding _everything_ from
> backports.org.
Why not dist-upgrade to Etch? That process seems to have slightly less
points of failure, as it is atually being debugged by several people.
Yes, that's exactly what I ended up doing.
That is - after I dumped fresh image of sarge on the machine.
One thing to watch for: upgrading the kernel is probably tricky with
such virtual-hosting setup. I figure you should contact support or
whatever regarding a kernel upgrade. Quite a few packages may break if
you have an older kernel.
Zoro problems, I did asked support before doing the actual upgrade and
they told me I am free to do what ever I please. The host is Xen based
with Athlon64 Pacifica enabled hardware hypervisor.
>
> OT questions:
>
> Where can I get more information about the various files under
> /var/lib/dpkg ?
> Turns out that even in sarge apt has "sources.list.d" why doesn't
> anyone uses it then?
> Can I write custom methods (under /usr/lib/apt/methods) ? Where is protocol
> ??
> Any more interesting places to look when hacking dpkg/debconf/apt/aptitude ?
>
Hmmm, could someone please provide some tips for the above ?
> Thank you and have a great weekend,
> Maxim.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Maxim Veksler
>
> "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?
>
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Cheers,
Maxim Veksler
"Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?
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