Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
2009/4/15 orange orang...@gmail.com I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread orange
I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade and config files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread Raffaele
2009/4/15 orange orang...@gmail.com I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade and

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Thorny thorntreeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:30:43 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar[ अभिषेक] posted: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u',

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main it updated :) but bad thing happened

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting orange orang...@gmail.com: I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
On Apr 7, 9:50 pm, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: Quoting orange orang...@gmail.com: I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: debftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/lenny contrib main debftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-securitylenny/updates main

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 475ba7a4-004c-4a44-8898-7d6f1a4ee...@o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com, orange wrote: I still don't understand why the (security) update was allowed to change menu.lst without asking for any confirmation. update-grub is run by the kernel package's postinst script. This is been true for quite a

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to verify that the system is

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Montag, 6. April 2009 schrieb orange: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to verify that the system is up-to-date (for sure)?

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
Abhishek Amberkar [ अभिषेक ] wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and it has been like that for several days now). Is

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-06 15:46 +0200, orange wrote: this is my sources.list : #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:30:43 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar[ अभिषेक] posted: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and it has been like

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Thorny
[...] deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main See the way my lines wrapped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Philipp Pagel
orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: Abhishek Amberkar [ ?? ] wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian this is my sources.list : #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de: On 2009-04-06 15:46 +0200, orange wrote: this is my sources.list : #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: ... To find the fastest debian mirror for you, you can use the netselect tool. Once installed (aptitude install netselect-apt_, you can just use the command 'netselect-apt lenny' (or 'netselect-apt -n lenny' to include non-free software), and

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
geez, but I wanted to be on 'testing' forever! I still have bad memories of not being able to run many important software on 'stable'. would it work if I just replace 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT) orange orang...@gmail.com wrote: Hello orange, would it work if I just replace 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list? Yes. I have always testing rather than etch, lenny, etc. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is /

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to update them to etch. I

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:06:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 April 2006 08:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On my sid system there are still packages from stable and testing, though I do a dist-upgrade at least every week. This is why I consider it best to keep sources also for stable and testing and just change your default release in apt.conf I

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 08:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On my sid system there are still packages from stable and testing, though I do a dist-upgrade at least every week. This is why I consider it best to keep sources also for stable and testing and just

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:06:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? Or can I jsut use my

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? Or can I jsut use my

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread lostson
Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to Begin: Waiting for root file system it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:12:48PM -0500, lostson wrote: Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to Begin: Waiting for root file system it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! at what stage? details man! also, please try not to top post. A

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: Hello I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with aptitude, is this