Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to cc me; I read the list.] On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > After further inventigation, it looks like apt-get -d can be used to download > necessary packages without installing them. > > Colin, > > If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/a

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.06.25 02:43, Ian D. Stewart a écrit : If a .deb for a given package exists in /var/cache/apt/archives, will apt-get -d still download it, or will it use the local package? It use the local package. -d means not install and not force download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ulf Rompe
Hi, about three months ago I wrote some related thoughts in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Four weeks ago I got the first and only reply to it - must be because of the quality and my good english. :-) But hey, I don't give up, so here is an extract of my thoughts *again*, still untested, but it may

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:19, Ian D. Stewart wrote: I know, pretty bad, replying to my own mail... ;) > > I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does > not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, > and I can't find anywhere else where t

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > > must still locate all the files except for in /

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > > changed from the virgin debian system

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > changed from the virgin debian system. I imagine it would be relatively straight forward to write a shell sc

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Brian Mays
> Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route > I must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > changed from the virgin debian system. Why don't you try looking for all files that have been modified since your install? You haven't upgraded any packages

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have changed from the virgin debian system. One interesting was is to check my .emacs ".backups", as I use backup-dir.el, then use, you know, #oh, this would miss them

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-22 Thread Brian Mays
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it's been a month of me editing various files turning my virgin > woody system into one that actually works :-) , and now boy do I > regret not keeping a captain's log of at least the names of the files > I changed. I was thinking that there would b

backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well, it's been a month of me editing various files turning my virgin woody system into one that actually works :-) , and now boy do I regret not keeping a captain's log of at least the names of the files I changed. I was thinking that there would be some automatic way to detect this --- and you g