SID out of Date ??
I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ . I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these discs be ? ben
Re: SID out of Date ??
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from | ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ | . | I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these | discs be ? They'll be as out-of-date as the date on them. Sid changes constantly as developers upload new packages. Any CD is, therefore, out-of-date almost immediately after its creation. If you want CDs that aren't out-of-date get Potato discs. Of course, much of the software in Potato is out-of-date because development has continued. :-) -D
RE: SID out of Date ??
That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL comesso I am d/l all of SID to have for the next week or so. Does that sound like a good apporach, or am I goin overboard. I just dont want to find myself in search of Packages without any internet to get them with. ben -Original Message- From: D-Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:41 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: SID out of Date ?? On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | I am currently d/l all the SID Cd images from | ftp://ftp.uni-bremen.de/pub/mirrors/debian_cdimages/debian-unofficial/sid/ | . | I noticed that they are all dated 3/10/2001. How far behind will these | discs be ? They'll be as out-of-date as the date on them. Sid changes constantly as developers upload new packages. Any CD is, therefore, out-of-date almost immediately after its creation. If you want CDs that aren't out-of-date get Potato discs. Of course, much of the software in Potato is out-of-date because development has continued. :-) -D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SID out of Date ??
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is March is ancient in OSS terms. | concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 | stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will Nope, I have woody on my box and X4 is really nice. I downloaded (via apt-get) kernel 2.4 but I haven't installed it yet since I know it will either work or fsck my modutils (which would make 2.2 unusable). | need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL | comesso I am d/l all of SID to have for the next week or so. | Does that sound like a good apporach, or am I goin overboard. I just | dont want to find myself in search of Packages without any internet | to get them with. I'd recommend getting Potato CDs to install from. Then download the packages you want, and any dependencies from woody to put on removeable media (CD-R works fine, or zip disk, or move a hard drive, whatever). packages.debian.org will list all the packages and the dependencies each package has. If you have a dial-up connection that you don't pay per-[minute|byte|whatever] you can use it to download stuff overnight. (I only have dial-up at the moment so that's what I do). Point sources.lst to woody and apt-get update apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade YMMV on the dist-upgrade though. Several weeks ago I had no show-stopper problems. Getting every package is going overboard since, presumably, you don't use every package. Just get the ones you need. -D
Re: SID out of Date ??
Case, Benjamin wrote: That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL comesso I am d/l all of SID to have for the next week or so. Does that sound like a good apporach, or am I goin overboard. I just dont want to find myself in search of Packages without any internet to get them with. If you only want to run potato with a 2.4 kernel, then you might want to take a look at deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main There you'll find potato packages for almost any software you need to run a 2.4 kernel taken from sid and recompiled for potato. I use for two month now on my router, firewall, fileserver, etc. and it works flawlessly. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
