On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of
course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular
backups, including a COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l package.lis and
scp it to another machine.
I did
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake
thus,
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a
response
On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 17:14, David Z Maze wrote:
Testing is still a comparatively young concept for Debian. For the
woody release, it seemed to work fairly well. At this point, the
canonical problem we've run into looks something like this: package A
depends on package base (= 1). Base is
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:01, Aaron wrote:
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake thus,
My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal,
surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to
upgrade RPM-based
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:20AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:58:14AM -0400, Aaron wrote:
So far so good with testing. After doing the dist-upgrade my machine
rebooted directly back into X with the
.
John Purser
-Original Message-
From: Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
Hey Debian-lovers,
I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn
up many
Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aaron wrote:
I don't want the hassle of running a hybrid Woody/Sarge system, just
because I'm too lazy to deal with the depedencies, but I don't mind a
few bugs in exchange for a more recent version of KDE/gAIM/whatever.
One disadvantage of
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:12:18AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:53:31PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a
response on this mailing
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was under the impression that the progression from most reliable
to most chaotic was Stable - Testing - Unstable. Is that not so?
So was I. It is not so (or so I've been told and my experiance backs
this
: Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
On -2406-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus,
I know your question was about Testing, and I answered
I've taken another route that doesn't work for everything, for things like kde
and gnome I 've done a search on apt-get.org or just on the applicable site
and found stable sources. After adding these sources to the sources list you
get the most recent copies of almost everything without the
Hey Debian-lovers,
I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn
up many good answers (and the answer I'm looking for is largely an
opinion, anyhow).
I've just (re)installed Woody on my laptop for about the third time.
The first time I mucked things up severely with
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a
response on this mailing list I installed woody stable again, changed my apt
sources, and upgraded to
Aaron wrote:
I don't want the hassle of running a hybrid Woody/Sarge system, just
because I'm too lazy to deal with the depedencies, but I don't mind a
few bugs in exchange for a more recent version of KDE/gAIM/whatever.
One disadvantage of moving away from stable is that you don't have the
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:01:51AM -0400, Aaron wrote:
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake thus,
My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal,
surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to
upgrade
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:20AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:58:14AM -0400, Aaron wrote:
So far so good with testing. After doing the dist-upgrade my machine
rebooted directly back into X with the nvidia kernel module
operational and everything seems to be fine.
]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
Hey Debian-lovers,
I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn
up many good answers (and the answer I'm looking for is largely an
opinion, anyhow).
I've just (re
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was under the impression that the progression from most reliable
to most chaotic was Stable - Testing - Unstable. Is that not so?
So was I. It is not so (or so I've been told and my experiance backs
this up.) Unstable has been fine for my desktop for
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:02:31PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
Hey Debian-lovers,
I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn
up many good answers (and the answer I'm looking for is largely an
opinion, anyhow).
I've just (re)installed Woody on my laptop for about the
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:02:26PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:20AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
KDE is a very complex package. There were all types of problems.
It ran fine in unstable, but you
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal,
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:14:37PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The fact that I hear it said so much re-confirms to me that the labels
testing and unstable (unless you like adventure) and possibly the
writeup on the debian site lead the masses to expect
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:22, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake
thus,
My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal,
surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to
upgrade RPM-based systems.
This is a repeated reply, but I had to add
On -2406-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake thus,
I know your question was about Testing, and I answered with Unstable.
You can do the same thing to go to testing if you want, but I don't
reccomend it. Don't do testing unless you're just doing a
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal,
surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:53:31PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a
response on this mailing list I installed woody stable again, changed my apt
sources, and
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
My mixed sarge/sid system
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:58:14AM -0400, Aaron wrote:
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake thus,
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:10, Aaron wrote:
On -2406-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake thus,
I know your question was about Testing, and I answered with Unstable.
You can do the same thing to go to testing if you want, but I don't
reccomend it.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote:
100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a
response on this mailing list I installed woody stable again, changed my apt
sources, and upgraded to Sarge, where I was STILL stuck with kde 2.2!
Not any
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