Re: apt - priorities?
Hi! B. Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if > a) the user requests to have the package upgraded > b) another package depends on the new version I use this workaround: Usually I have unstable commented out in sources.list. If I want to install a single package from slink re-add it to sourcec.list, run "apt-get update && apt-get install " remove it from sources.list and rerun "apt-get update". It's not perfect, since new packages from slink are listed as orphaned, but I can live with it. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB pgpKwd0fVpFLd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt - priorities?
On 10 Aug 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BB> and either way, for all of the packages which are in both hamm and slink, > BB> dselect wants to upgrade to the slink versions... > > slink tends to have newer versions of things than hamm, so APT tries > to download things from there. Given identical file versions, APT > will download a file from the first site listed, but if the file on > one site is newer than the other than it will get the newer file. Whoops, I missed the part about the packages having identical versions. But, I think that many people would be much happier if they could run a stable system, and not have to track by hand upgrades of the few unstable packages they need (gnome, enlightenment, apt...) Is this a feature that will be added soon, or is there some method of doing this now? If this is something that somebody should start working on, where would they start? could it be done as some new scripts for apt's dselect method? Two possible 'modes' of tracking unstable packages: 1) Track _only_ the packages from unstable of which they already have a version installed. - but then what to do if a package suddenly depends on a package which is not being tracked? 2) Track everything in unstable, but only try to upgrade a package if a) the user requests to have the package upgraded b) another package depends on the new version thanks, -brad
Re: apt - priorities?
B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: JG> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: RvdM> When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian RvdM> archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same RvdM> version of a package is found on more than one site? RvdM> RvdM> Is it just the order in which you put the archives in the sources.list file? JG> JG> Yes. Put the one your prefer first. JG> BB> and either way, for all of the packages which are in both hamm and slink, BB> dselect wants to upgrade to the slink versions... slink tends to have newer versions of things than hamm, so APT tries to download things from there. Given identical file versions, APT will download a file from the first site listed, but if the file on one site is newer than the other than it will get the newer file. -- _ / \ "Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box." | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_/
Re: apt - priorities?
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > > When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian > > archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same > > version of a package is found on more than one site? > > > > Is it just the order in which you put the archives in the sources.list file? > > Yes. Put the one your prefer first. maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I see _no_ difference at all that the order in sources.list makes. I've tried it both this way: deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free and this way: deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free and either way, for all of the packages which are in both hamm and slink, dselect wants to upgrade to the slink versions... -brad
Re: apt - priorities?
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hi, > > When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian > archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same > version of a package is found on more than one site? > > Is it just the order in which you put the archives in the sources.list file? Yes. Put the one your prefer first. Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
apt - priorities?
Hi, When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same version of a package is found on more than one site? Is it just the order in which you put the archives in the sources.list file? -Remco -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
