Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-08 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/7/15, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > David Wright a écrit : >> >>>From man apt-cache: >> >>-p, --pkg-cache >>Select the file to store the package cache. The package >>cache is the primary cache used by all operations. >>

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): > David Wright a écrit : > > Quoting David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il): > > > > Pascal, I believe, said: > >>> You can bind|link|whatever /var/cache/apt/archive to a filesystem with > >>> enough free space. > >> Running it this way right now, seems

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Cindy-Sue Causey (butterflyby...@gmail.com): > On 9/7/15, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > David Wright a écrit : > >> > >>>From man apt-cache: > >> > >>-p, --pkg-cache > >>Select the file to store the package cache. The package > >>cache

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread David Baron
> David Baron a écrit : > > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. > > Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, > > there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size. > > Too bad you did trust the Debian

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Baron a écrit : >> David Baron a écrit : >>> Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, >>> there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size. >> >> Too bad you did trust the Debian installer instead of using LVM and >> leaving some space

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread dean
On 07/09/15 17:42, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > David Baron a écrit : >>> David Baron a écrit : Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size. >>> >>> Too bad you did trust the Debian installer

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il): Pascal, I believe, said: > > You can bind|link|whatever /var/cache/apt/archive to a filesystem with > > enough free space. > > Running it this way right now, seems OK. Question: Is this directory needed > at > boot, i.e., before home is mounted (why I

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Wright a écrit : > Quoting David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il): > > Pascal, I believe, said: >>> You can bind|link|whatever /var/cache/apt/archive to a filesystem with >>> enough free space. >> Running it this way right now, seems OK. Question: Is this directory needed >> at >> boot, i.e.,

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
dean a écrit : > > On 07/09/15 17:42, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Because you selected LVM in the assisted mode, which messes up sizes and >> does not leave any free extents for future growth. You can still reduce >> an oversized LV to free some extents but if the filesystem is ext2/3/4 >> it

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Baron a écrit : > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. > Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, > there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size. Too bad you did trust the Debian installer instead

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread David Baron
covered fairly quickly, > so it probably isn't a problem. But certainly in unstable, quite a few > packages which were stuck for a few weeks have now upgraded, and I > shifted about fifty this evening. I do an apt-get clear routinely. Just does not get me enough. Yes, unstable. Probl

Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread David Baron
Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size. What can be done about this? Note that to get an /opt, I bind this to a

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread David Christensen
On 09/06/2015 02:55 AM, David Baron wrote: Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size.

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32:08 David Christensen wrote: > On 09/06/2015 02:55 AM, David Baron wrote: > > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. > > Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, > > there is not enough room on /var

Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

2015-09-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:54:13 +0300 David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32:08 David Christensen wrote: > > On 09/06/2015 02:55 AM, David Baron wrote: > > > Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start > > > upgrading. Problem is that with that

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-14 Thread 慕冬亮
On 03/13/2015 07:18 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 13 March 2015 10:58:38 Brian wrote: deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main It will choose the best mirror at that moment for that download. See http://http.debian.net/ Lisi I think Brian you can use apt-spy to find your fastest

Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread SL
Hi, I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there anything I can do to speed things up? Could anyone suggest e.g. a mirror I

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:27:54AM +0100, SL wrote: Hi, I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy.  During the dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (10kB/ s), which is causing the process to take a very long time.  Is there anything

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Mar 2015 at 11:27:54 +0100, SL wrote: I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there anything I can do to speed

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:27:54 +0100 SL bgs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a number of VPSs which I need to upgrade to Wheezy. During the dist-upgrade step I'm getting very slow download speeds from debian.org (10kB/s), which is causing the process to take a very long time. Is there

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 10:58:38 Brian wrote: deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main It will choose the best mirror at that moment for that download. See http://http.debian.net/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Very slow downloads when doing dist-upgrade.

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Purgert
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:46:41 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [...] If you have more than a few servers, it is really beneficial to use a caching HTTP proxy (e.g. squid configured to cache big files) on your local network ... Then you'll only have to download things once (usually) hope