Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Thu 29 Jun 2017 at 07:31:35 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-28, David Wright wrote: > > > >> 'apt-get install ' will tell you why a package is being held > >> back (or, as discussed in another thread, will ask your permission to > >> install an extra package--or

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On 2017-06-28, David Wright wrote: > >> 'apt-get install ' will tell you why a package is being held >> back (or, as discussed in another thread, will ask your permission to >> install an extra package--or packages--in order to meet its dependencies). > > It's less risky

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Sun 25 Jun 2017 at 11:36:37 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > > aptitude I would have done

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Wed 28 Jun 2017 at 22:19:18 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > > In short, use aptitude for why and why-not. Closest thing apt-get and > > friends have would be apt-cache --important depends/rdepends. But, > > aptitude is much

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:36:37AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > > aptitude I would have done

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 25-06-17, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, > > reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting > > better and better. I

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:29:27PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > > if a package is installed > > > > $ apt policy some-pkg-name > > which evolved from > > $ apt-cache policy pkg-name > > > will

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > if a package is installed > $ apt policy some-pkg-name which evolved from $ apt-cache policy pkg-name will display installation status of some-pkg-name -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix,

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > aptitude I would have done aptitude why-not chromium and it would most > likely have told me

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

On 25-06-17, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello the list! > > I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, > reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting > better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and > share it here shortly.

Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

Hello the list! I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and share it here shortly. In the meantime I have one question. It seems

Re: Apt Question

On 05/23/2017 08:47 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Apt Question >> UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM >> From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > >>> If he &g

Re: Apt Question

On 05/23/2017 03:57 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: Apt Question >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 11:02 PM >> From: songb...@anthive.com >> >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> > I have, for various reasons, the

Re: Apt Question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: Apt Question > UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM > From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > > > If he > > is already running

Re: Apt Question

Original Message Subject: Re: Apt Question UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > If he > is already running a sid linux kernel and some other core packages by > switching to jessie he will be stuck with those packages almost indefinitely, He's no

Re: Apt Question

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 04:57:03AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), > > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and > > have it running for some time. > I don't know, I am not being

Re: Apt Question

Original Message Subject: Re: Apt Question UTC Time: May 22, 2017 11:02 PM From: songb...@anthive.com Michael Milliman wrote: > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and

Re: Apt Question

Michael Milliman wrote: > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and > have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch > and I revert to the stable version of the package until

Apt Question

I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch and I revert to the stable version of the package until the bug gets worked out. I

APT question

Hi all... I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, and I would like some way of getting that exact bunch of packages installed on a fresh Debian install. Is there any way to get some list of

Re: APT question

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) duplication package setup across machines ? I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, and I would like some way of getting that

Re: APT question

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: Hi all... I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, and I would like some way of getting that exact bunch of packages

Re: APT question

Hi All... On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:17:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: Hi all... I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages

Re: APT question

Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: Hi all... I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, and I would like some

Re: Simple aptitude/apt question

Hello Hugh Crissman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I exclude a package when doing a upgrade. Say Postfix for example. I want to update all the packages on my system but I don't want to update Postfix. How would I do that? You can set the package to hold usind aptitude or dselect or dpkg

Re: Simple aptitude/apt question

Hugh Crissman a écrit : How do I exclude a package when doing a upgrade. Say Postfix for example. I want to update all the packages on my system but I don't want to update Postfix. How would I do that? With aptitude, you select the package you don't want to upgrade and then press the '=' key.

Simple aptitude/apt question

How do I exclude a package when doing a upgrade. Say Postfix for example. I want to update all the packages on my system but I don't want to update Postfix. How would I do that? HCrissman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

deep apt question

Hi All, like a lot of people I run a local apt repository combined with an apt-proxy that caches a close official debian distribution server. My local installation web server looks like: /var/debian/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 2005-11-11 19:41 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root

Re: apt question

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 20:29, Bradley Alexander wrote: Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and thanks to having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of filesystems got trashed. I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems

apt question

Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and thanks to having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of filesystems got trashed. I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems (reiserfs). However, a slew of files (700+) got put in lost+found

RE: dpkg/apt question

Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Is there any particular reason that you don't want to use aptitude or dselect to interactively change the installed packages? -- monique sorry, there was more to the story than i guess i led you to believe. here's a bit more information. the existing debian box

RE: dpkg/apt question

we are now going to roll out these changes to all our machines in this complex (30+) and another 15-20 machines in two satellite offices. thanks all, Preston There are a large number of utility programs just in case you're unaware of them. Stuff to let you do ongoing package management,

dpkg/apt question

i have inherited an existing debian box and want to change the packages to suit me and the office that it will now be used. i would like to take the installed packages listed from: dpkg --get-selections packages.txt and edit the file to reflect what i actually want/need on the box. after i

Re: dpkg/apt question

--- Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg --set-selections packages.txt then: apt-get install ^^^ Wrong. You want to do: apt-get dselect-upgrade -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor --

Re: dpkg/apt question

On 2004-07-22, Preston Boyington penned: i have inherited an existing debian box and want to change the packages to suit me and the office that it will now be used. i would like to take the installed packages listed from: dpkg --get-selections packages.txt and edit the file to reflect

Re: apt question

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:26:03 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:10:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: Did you apt-get update first? If not, you need to. Thanks. I could swear that wasn't in the man page. enjae[westk]:/home/westk man apt-get . . . DESCRIPTION

apt question

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:53:35 -0600, Kent West wrote: As you recommended I added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work which I did #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src

Re: apt question

Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:53:35 -0600, Kent West wrote: As you recommended I added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work which I did #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Re: apt question

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:10:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:53:35 -0600, Kent West wrote: As you recommended I added these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work which I did #deb-src

Re: apt question

Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:10:26 -0600, Kent West wrote: Did you apt-get update first? If not, you need to. Thanks. I could swear that wasn't in the man page. enjae[westk]:/home/westk man apt-get . . . DESCRIPTION apt-get is the command-line tool for handling

Re: Theoretical APT question

on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +, Ken Gilmour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self ?on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable

Re: Theoretical APT question

Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self  on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable partitioning scheme.  The existing Debian Policy specification of what files go where

Re: Theoretical APT question

on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:01:42PM -0800, Wm.G.McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Is there any way I can reset the directory/partition that apt uses to install software? I believe it currently install packages under /usr... and /var The history of *nix is very diverse and

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:49:22AM -0800, Wm.G.McGrath wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I don't know the answer to your question, but: : : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a : document called File

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:04:42 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Debian packages aren't relocatable, I'm afraid. Their maintainer : scripts frequently contain absolute paths or call other utilities : that expect certain absolute paths, and changing this would be a : ginormous amount of

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I don't know the answer to your question, but: : : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a : document called File Heirarchy Standard. FHS sets out in great : detail exactly where every type

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:49:22AM -0800, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:58:47 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : The thing that really sold me on switching from RH to Debian was a : document called File Heirarchy Standard. FHS sets out in great : detail exactly

Theoretical APT question

Hi, Is there any way I can reset the directory/partition that apt uses to install software? I believe it currently install packages under /usr... and /var The history of *nix is very diverse and reflected in the (needless?) complexity of its directory structure. /usr is very large and used

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:01:42PM -0800, Wm.G.McGrath wrote: Hi, Is there any way I can reset the directory/partition that apt uses to install software? I believe it currently install packages under /usr... and /var The history of *nix is very diverse and reflected in the

Re: Theoretical APT question

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:01:42PM -0800, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: Is there any way I can reset the directory/partition that apt uses to install software? I believe it currently install packages under /usr... and /var Debian packages aren't relocatable, I'm afraid. Their maintainer scripts

Re: apt question: exclude certain packages from upgrading?

At 01 Oct 2003 14:47:58 +0200, JG wrote: Hi, Put the package on hold. Select your package on dselect or aptitude and press = to put it on hold. Or $ echo pptp-client hold | dpkg --set-selections This will keep the package at the current version (unless you intentionally install a new

apt question: exclude certain packages from upgrading?

Hi all, Happily back on debian again and with it more questions...:) Question: Is there a way to tell apt to never upgrade a certain package? while upgrading everything else? Details: I have to use pptp-client to connect to my adsl provider. This in itself is not a problem, but the only

apt question (downgrading and installing from source)

In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended up using packages from unstable. Unfortunately, I ended up getting libc6 and a few other important ones. Now I'm seeing various errors sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade. First question, what's the

Re: apt question (downgrading and installing from source)

Chris Kenrick wrote: In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended up using packages from unstable. Unfortunately, I ended up getting libc6 and a few other important ones. Now I'm seeing various errors sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade. First

Re: Apt question

It's easy, and helpful. :) Create/Add... Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-priority: 50 ...To your /etc/apt/preferences, and add a sid source at the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list. If you're using potato, you'd change the 'Pin:

Apt question

A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing to sid. Or something to that effect. Ive looked through the archives, but I cant

Re: Apt question

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:23:51PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: | A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember | correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down | to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing | to sid. Or

Re: Apt question

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 20:23, Scott Henson wrote: A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing to sid. Or something to

Re: Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also apt-get install apt-howto/unstable Sweet! Thanks. Armed with new information, I would interpret the following stanza as Don't install *anything* that the Debian folks created. Correct? Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -10 --

Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

I asked myself the questions: How do I add the occasional unstable package to my testing system in a better way than downloading debs and using dpkg to install them? How do I track packages in testing that I originally got out of unstable? Finally, and less often, how do I track a

Re: Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even after pouring over the apt-preferences man page a few times, I have no idea what is meant by the second stanza. Examples should be added to /usr/share/doc/apt as well. http://bugs.debian.org/114417 -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt preferences (was Re: apt question)

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:10:10PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Even after pouring over the apt-preferences man page a few times, I have no idea what is meant by the second stanza. Examples should be added to /usr/share/doc/apt as well.

Re: yet another apt question

Joerg == Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it Joerg downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them Joerg to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a Joerg dist-upgrade. Take a look at apt-move. I

yet another apt question

Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a dist-upgrade. I think all I need is an up-to-date list of available packages including their dependencies, and the new

Re: yet another apt question

use download only option for apt-get , debs are already compressed, then transfer - Original Message - From: Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:32 AM Subject: yet another apt question Hi List Where does apt

Re: yet another apt question

Antonio Rodriguez wrote: use download only option for apt-get , debs are already compressed, then transfer NO, you misunderstood my question. I know what to do with the debs, once I have them downloaded. I want to know how to tell the offline-box which debs to use without doing apt-get update

Re: yet another apt question

On 13 Aug 2001 13:32:48 +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a dist-upgrade. I think all I need is an up-to-date list of

Re: yet another apt question

Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JJ NO, you misunderstood my question. I know what to do with the debs, once JJ I have them downloaded. I want to know how to tell the offline-box which JJ debs to use without doing apt-get update (because it's JJ impossible). You can just copy the package

Re: yet another apt question

David Z. Maze wrote: Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JJ NO, you misunderstood my question. I know what to do with the debs, once JJ I have them downloaded. I want to know how to tell the offline-box which JJ debs to use without doing apt-get update (because it's JJ impossible).

Re: yet another apt question

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:40:11PM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: In sid, apt store the info in /var/lib/apt/lists, don't remember for potato... (something like /var/state/apt/lists, but i could be wrong) Actually for potato they are in /var/state/apt/lists. In woody and sid they are in

Re: apt question revisitted

Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Paul Mackinney so: Disclaimer: Post from blatant newbie. I tried der.hans' advice to add the two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for woody (these exactly match the woody page on www.debian.org, BTW) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

Re: apt question revisitted

Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte D-Man so: I used 'dist-upgrade', not 'install apt', a couple weeks ago. I got the same sort of errors. I tried the '-f' (force) option (as suggested Actually, -f is --fix-broken. by some program) and it worked. I then killed it so I could go back to regular

apt-ssh / ssh-apt question

Hi! I think I have read about some ssh enabled apt some time ago on this list. I have searched the mailing lsit archives, but could not find anything. If someone knows of a way how to use apt with ssh I'd really be gratefull for the information. THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller

apt question revisitted

Disclaimer: Post from blatant newbie. I tried der.hans' advice to add the two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list for woody (these exactly match the woody page on www.debian.org, BTW) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: apt question revisitted

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:54:02PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | Disclaimer: Post from blatant newbie. | | I tried der.hans' advice to add the two lines to /etc/apt/sources.list | for woody (these exactly match the woody page on www.debian.org, BTW) | Unpacking g++-2.95 (from

Re: apt question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:37:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: i stick with potato. it worked yesterday, it'll still work tomorrow. i may WANT something fancy that's only in woody, but i can make do with potato just fine. and intelligent contributors keep backporting other gizmos to potato

Re: apt question

Am 15. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Ben Harvey so: I remember hearing something about mixing potato woody in sources.list so that apt wont use the unstable version unless you explicitly tell it to. now that I want to do just that I can't find the relevant docs/archived mail It might have had

apt question

Ello i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write to sources.list to make apt to

Re: apt question

HI pReJkEr wrote: Ello i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write to sources.list to make

Re: apt question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:15:14AM -0500, Andrew Dixon decreed: i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone

Re: apt question

Am 14. Jun, 2001 schwäzte pReJkEr so: i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell me what i have to write to

Re: apt question

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:51:47PM +0200, pReJkEr wrote: Ello i've installed debian on my comp for the first time and when i was installing it (base-config) from an ftp site (ftp.pl.debian.org) apt downloads very old packages ie. xfree-3.3.6 gnome-1.0 and so on can someone tell

Re: apt question

Jitse Niesen wrote: You can add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release testing; Hm, I tried that with poor results, the following in /etc/apt/preferences works much better for me: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian

Re: apt question

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Radu Muschevici wrote: is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib and prevent apt from taking every

Re: apt question

On Sun, 25 Mar, 2001 at 19:37:04 +0100, Jitse Niesen wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Radu Muschevici wrote: is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/

Re: apt question

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib Entries like this are not wise, because you will get only the newest packages in the list, using select funktion of dselect. I want to run testing and only

Re: apt question

On Sat, 24 Mar, 2001 at 09:58:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib Entries like this are not wise, because you will get only the newest packages in the list,

Re: apt question

on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:47:47AM +0100, Radu Muschevici ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free

apt question

is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list like this: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib and prevent apt from taking every package from unstable since it has the newer

Re: apt question

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/05/01 at 12:52 PM, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just package your private package with higher version number and install over working Debian is safer. That is the right way. Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How hard is it to do that?

Re: apt question

Read packaging-manual and debian-policy. I aint no expert. Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How hard is it to do that? Is there a link to some good docs? -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92

Re: apt question

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/05/01 at 12:52 PM, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Just package your private package with higher version number and install over working Debian is safer. That is the right way. Maybe I could make a simple deb package of my sources. How hard is it to

Re: apt question

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/04/01 at 08:16 PM, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am sure you have enough space on HD (like swap). Just do not overwrite current system. Even if you try to hold them with dselect, you have broken dependency. Yeah. Is there a way to get into the dependency

apt question

I have a mostly working Linux setup that I have maintained and upgraded over the years using sources I've compiled and installed. I want to use apt so that I can test and checkout various applications and can remove them easily if I no longer need, or don't like them. How can I tell apt/dselect

Re: apt question

Hi, Mixing packaging system is considered bad practice. I think it is best not to do. Alternative is dual boot Linux if it is not dedicated production server. (If serious server, just set up another backup machine) Install debian and transfer data (mount partition or NFS) to migrate. Debian

Re: apt question

I have a mostly working Linux setup that I have maintained and upgraded over the years using sources I've compiled and installed. I want to use apt so that I can test and checkout various applications and can remove them easily if I no longer need, or don't like them. How can I tell

Re: apt question

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, F. Heitkamp wrote: I have a mostly working Linux setup that I have maintained and upgraded over the years using sources I've compiled and installed. I want to use apt so that I can test and checkout various applications and can remove them easily if I no longer need, or don't

Re: apt question

I may have misunderstood original posting but... Enen if original poster started with one of Debian, he seems have installled binary programs without debian package. (If he started with RH or Slack, things are worse.) If these programs are needed and can not be replaced by Debian ones, my best

Re: apt question

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/04/01 at 07:14 PM, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I may have misunderstood original posting but... Enen if original poster started with one of Debian, he seems have installled binary programs without debian package. (If he started with RH or Slack, things are

Re: apt question

I am sure you have enough space on HD (like swap). Just do not overwrite current system. Even if you try to hold them with dselect, you have broken dependency. You really need to install new base system. (anything less will get you into trouble.) 1. Make space somewhere on HD. (move files

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