Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid
Le jeudi 28 janvier 2010 à 11:30 +0100, koen.n...@koca.be a écrit : On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:53 +0100, Geek87 gee...@gmx.com wrote: Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty? Thanks in advance. Geek87 I don't think it's a good idea. Because if in your example sendmail is replaced with postfix. Config files will not be magically filled it for the new system. Not that the above will happen often. The only thing you should automate is installing security updates every night, there is a package for this if I remember correct. When security is a concern, and it should, configure IPTABLES after install before plugging in your system. It depends on what you'll be using the system for. I have Debian Samba PDC with DHCP and DNS: I really don't want this to update just like that. Everything depends on it. If it's your local desktop, it doens't really matter. But then you don't have to automate it because you can do it at logon or whatever. Koen Linders Thank you for the answer. So this is a bad idea for the tasks I agree with you, I didn't see the things this way. But for the base system (~prequired, ~pimportant and ~pstandard) do you think it's a bad idea too? Why would it be bad idea to have the new packages (which now have one of the 3 priorities above) and old packages (which no longer have one of the 3 priorities) automatically proposed respectively for install or removal on updates? Geek87 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid
Hi all! I'm new on the list so I hope my question is not stupid and I'm asking it in the good list. I have Sid installed on my computer and I would like to know how to keep my base system (~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard) always clean and up to date automatically: if package A is no longer needed it should be removed automatically and if package B is new and with one of the 3 priority above it should be installed automatically. For the autoremove problem I found a solution: I put all ~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard packages in automatically installed state and put ~prequired, ~pimportant, ~pstandard in the APT::NeverAutoRemove directive of the apt.conf file. In this case every package that is repacked with a new priority not in the 3 above will be automatically removed unless there is a dependence on it. For the autoinstall problem I didn't face the situation yet but I don't know how I'll do. I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for example if I have a task Mail server installed depending on Sendmail and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would like Sendmail to be automatically removed and Postfix to be automatically installed. The technique above doesn't work for the tasks. Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty? Thanks in advance. Geek87 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:53 +0100, Geek87 gee...@gmx.com wrote: Do you have any idea? Is the technique I used bad and dirty? Thanks in advance. Geek87 I don't think it's a good idea. Because if in your example sendmail is replaced with postfix. Config files will not be magically filled it for the new system. Not that the above will happen often. The only thing you should automate is installing security updates every night, there is a package for this if I remember correct. When security is a concern, and it should, configure IPTABLES after install before plugging in your system. It depends on what you'll be using the system for. I have Debian Samba PDC with DHCP and DNS: I really don't want this to update just like that. Everything depends on it. If it's your local desktop, it doens't really matter. But then you don't have to automate it because you can do it at logon or whatever. Koen Linders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
