On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set
it up! I have
On Sunday 22 May 2011 23:10:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
quote
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200
/quote
It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
It's just as I
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having edited a
preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my system. I
didn't want updated versions either OOo or Firefox that badly!!
But, as I have said: where are
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo or
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo or
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:51:21 Lisi wrote:
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
[snip]
# git commit -a -m note about what I just changed
The big benefit of committing yourself (vs. automatic commits) is you
can easily tell from the
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:01:47, Lisi wrote:
I have in fact gone on niggling at this. And the instructions page clearly
says to add those exact lines. I agree with you now. I must have just
copied and pasted them without registering them.
I clearly do need to add etckeeper as you
On 05/23/2011 05:18 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
forgot about it. May I suggest installing etckeeper? In it's default
configuration it will automatically keep a track of all changes in /etc,
which you can review very easily if you wish with (as root):
# cd /etc
# git log -u
If you make any
On Monday 23 May 2011 15:02:40 Andrei Popescu wrote:
please feel free to ignore
any suggestions from my side regarding administering your computer, if
you don't find them useful. I just happen to enjoy throwing ideas
around, although sometimes I tend to exagerate ;)
I knew someone once who
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
[...]
200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free
On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
quote
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200
/quote
It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
It's just as I expected.
As I said, I have set nothing manually. Aptitude
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
[...]
Hi,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
According to the backports instructions site in
On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I
was
two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Monday 16 May 2011 20:04:09 Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least,
I was two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it up!
I have never dared touch my preferences file.
[...]
200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
release o=Debian
According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
along with the other repos via apt-get update?
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apt-get update?
I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I was
two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Lisi
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
along with the other
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
this isn't required for
Squeeze backports get updated
along with the other repos via apt-get update?
I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I
was
two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Don't know. I just started playing with the backport repo. I'm
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
this isn't required for
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another
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