Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote:
Stephen wrote:
snippage
Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on
the line above :
I run aptitude from the command line ; 'aptitude dist-upgrade' works fine
for me. It seems many
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Owen Heisler wrote:
George Borisov wrote:
[...]
I think it already is like the dist-upgrade option? After all, it does
install new and remove unwanted dependencies.
According to 'man aptitude':
upgrade - Upgrades installed packages to their most recent
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:26 -0400, Stephen wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:39:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote:
Stephen wrote:
snippage
Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment on
the line above :
I run aptitude from the command line ;
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:17:16AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote:
So 'aptitude upgrade' is like 'apt-get upgrade'. But there is no
'dist-upgrade' option for aptitude. I don't get it... How can I see,
in aptitude (interactive), a full dist-upgrade?
Sorry I haven't been following
Stephen wrote:
Owen Heisler wrote:
So 'aptitude upgrade' is like 'apt-get upgrade'. But there is no
'dist-upgrade' option for aptitude. I don't get it... How can I see,
in aptitude (interactive), a full dist-upgrade?
Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd comment
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:17:16 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
George Borisov wrote:
[...]
I think it already is like the dist-upgrade option? After all, it does
install new and remove unwanted dependencies.
According to 'man aptitude':
upgrade - Upgrades installed packages to their most
George Borisov wrote:
Owen Heisler wrote:
I have Debian running on another drive now, and have another question.
When I update the system using aptitude, the mark upgradeable
packages (or similar) option in the menu will mark all the packages to
update. Then I can see what it is
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 10:45 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
I have been following this thread as I am working on switching to
Debian, and have just these questions:
If I install Debian stable and have stable in the
Owen Heisler wrote:
I have Debian running on another drive now, and have another question.
When I update the system using aptitude, the mark upgradeable
packages (or similar) option in the menu will mark all the packages to
update. Then I can see what it is planning on doing. This is a
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 22:44 +0300, Black Dew wrote:
If I install Debian stable and have stable in the sources.list file,
will updates keep happening, even across releases? I think it would be
great it I never had to reinstall, yet could still have a completely
up-to-date system.
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
I will probably follow stable unless the packages are all too old, then
will jump to testing. This brings up something else: if I have
testing in my sources.list file and replace it with stable (if I
want to go back to stable),
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 22:44 +0300, Black Dew wrote:
If I install Debian stable and have stable in the sources.list file,
will updates keep happening, even across releases? I think it would be
great it I never had to
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
lrwxrwxrwx1 200 200 4 Jun 06 2005 testing - etch
The stable/testing/unstable names are
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
lrwxrwxrwx1 200 200 4
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
lrwxrwxrwx1 200 200 4
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
lrwxrwxrwx1 200 200 4
If I install Debian stable and have stable in the sources.list file,
will updates keep happening, even across releases? I think it would be
great it I never had to reinstall, yet could still have a completely
up-to-date system.
stable is just a pointer to the latest release. So if you put now
Chris Howie on 16/05/06 20:16, wrote:
That is correct. However when sarge was released, I was tracking testing,
meaning that I jumped right into etch. I recall this having very ill effects
that lasted until I reinstalled etch. Now I am tracking etch, and plan on
doing so until several days
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:46:59AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
Chris Howie on 16/05/06 20:16, wrote:
That is correct. However when sarge was released, I was tracking testing,
meaning that I jumped right into etch. I recall this having very ill
effects
that lasted until I reinstalled etch.
Andrew Sackville-West on 18/05/06 15:17, wrote:
My sources.list points at etch (testing, right?) like so:
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb http://ftp.debian.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ testing main
deb
IMHO, its better to pre-empt that by pointing to etch instead of
testing. then when etch ebcomes stable, you'll stabilise and can
decide on your own when to brave the churning in testing. And I
suspect that's a lot easier than trying to go through a downgrade
process.
You mean 'testing'
Chris Brotherton on 18/05/06 16:38, wrote:
IMHO, its better to pre-empt that by pointing to etch instead of
testing. then when etch ebcomes stable, you'll stabilise and can
decide on your own when to brave the churning in testing. And I
suspect that's a lot easier than trying to go through a
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:17:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
Chris Brotherton on 18/05/06 16:38, wrote:
IMHO, its better to pre-empt that by pointing to etch instead of
testing. then when etch ebcomes stable, you'll stabilise and can
decide on your own when to brave the churning in testing. And
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:17:38PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
Chris Brotherton on 18/05/06 16:38, wrote:
IMHO, its better to pre-empt that by pointing to etch instead of
testing. then when etch ebcomes stable, you'll stabilise and can
decide on your own when to brave the churning in testing. And
Adam Hardy wrote:
You mean 'testing' and 'etch' are interchangeable as far as the
sources.list entry goes?
lrwxrwxrwx1 200 200 4 Jun 06 2005 testing - etch
The stable/testing/unstable names are just symlinks to the actual
codenames. So for now, testing and etch are
Paul E Condon wrote:
I would highly recommend leaving your sources.list pointing at etch until
after
the freeze is over, then point at testing. Upgrading across releases (for
that
is what will happen if you track testing) can cause some bizarre problems now
and then.
I think the reasoning
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being what testing currently
Joseph Smidt wrote:
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on
my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from
etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for
the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being
Joseph Smidt wrote:
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on
my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from
etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for
the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:01:36PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote:
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my
computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to
testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch
freeze to
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:49:07PM -0400, Chris Howie wrote:
Joseph Smidt wrote:
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on
my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from
etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait
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