Re: Upgrade report from bo to hamm :-(

1998-06-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long been know. This one point bears correction. ] Enrique You won't have wait for hours while a list of Skipping Enrique foo. Skipping bar. is displayed at the screen. 1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mountable

Re: Upgrade report from bo to hamm :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:07:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: [...] The initial update to libc6 via the autoup.sh went very smooth and flawlessly. I fetched the .deb packages via FTP over a decent bandwith and this went pretty fast. The bad thing afterwards was the painfully slo o o o o w w w

Re: Upgrade report from bo to hamm :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:09:51PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: Actually the true killer was the upgrade of the teTeX packages. It is pretty hard to stand seeing three time in a row Running initex [...] This will take some time on a 486DX-2/66 at the configuration stage. This alone consumed