Re: pinning for easy downgrading
mtms [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I wrong or pure64/sarge points to sid and the real Sarge you are referring to is in debian-pure64/testing instead? yes. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pinning for easy downgrading
Alexandru Cabuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to configure apt to install sid pure64 but in such a way that when sarge will become sufficiently tested and sufficiently stable and friendly, I can downgrade to it? Is downgrading in general a doable thing? For sarge: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat /mnt/buildd/sarge/etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=testing,v=3.1 Pin-Priority: 1001 For sid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat /mnt/buildd/sarge/etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=unstable,v=3.2 Pin-Priority: 1001 Sarge is all done except for having 78 packages less than sid has that it should have. Things that need patches to compile mostly. I have heard it's supposed to be so unpractical it's not worth it. It was until recently. The scripts for sarge are now all in place and seem to work fine. Isn't there any way to do it though? Cos running sid can be a little annoying what with constant upgrading problems with buggy packages, and having to hold them, etc. As a side note, I am asking because I had just realized I had forgotten that my firewall (on my amd64 sid) was not running for a couple of hours and when I came to, I found all my base files missing. I can't even do ls, or top or ps or cat or nano or emacs anymore. It says the files don't exist. I can cd though! Yay! On the bright side, he seems to have left my home directory thankfully untouched. So he just wanted to teach me a lesson... the sonufa... So I think this is a reinstall job. Right? Did you not upgrade for a long time and now upgrade? Does '/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /bin/ls -ld /lib64' work and show the link? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pinning for easy downgrading
On 19 Feb 2005, 10:24, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For sarge: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat /mnt/buildd/sarge/etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=testing,v=3.1 Pin-Priority: 1001 For sid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat /mnt/buildd/sarge/etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release o=Debian-amd64,a=unstable,v=3.2 Pin-Priority: 1001 Sarge is all done except for having 78 packages less than sid has that it should have. Things that need patches to compile mostly. Am I wrong or pure64/sarge points to sid and the real Sarge you are referring to is in debian-pure64/testing instead? Anyway, I choose to apt-get both repositories, go for testing and install some package from sid (with '-t unstable' option) only if I really need it: # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 99 -- @,@ Il corpo del povero cadrebbe subito in pezzi [`-'] se non fosse legato ben stretto dal filo dei sogni -----Anonimo indiano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pinning for easy downgrading
Is there any way to configure apt to install sid pure64 but in such a way that when sarge will become sufficiently tested and sufficiently stable and friendly, I can downgrade to it? Is downgrading in general a doable thing? I have heard it's supposed to be so unpractical it's not worth it. Isn't there any way to do it though? Cos running sid can be a little annoying what with constant upgrading problems with buggy packages, and having to hold them, etc. As a side note, I am asking because I had just realized I had forgotten that my firewall (on my amd64 sid) was not running for a couple of hours and when I came to, I found all my base files missing. I can't even do ls, or top or ps or cat or nano or emacs anymore. It says the files don't exist. I can cd though! Yay! On the bright side, he seems to have left my home directory thankfully untouched. So he just wanted to teach me a lesson... the sonufa... So I think this is a reinstall job. Right? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
