Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, need a smart app. that says: this you decided to get then but do you still need it? Hugo $debtags search 'use::checking admin::package-management' apt-show-versions - lists available package versions with distribution debfoster -

Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Just dist-upgraded Sid: 390 packages. Went without a hitch after 36 hours on the dialup v.92 line. Thanks developers! But this brings up a point: the list of packages keeps getting bigger: I now have Iceweasel too, although I use Firefox from upstream. So I decided in the past to get

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So I decided in the past to get a package and so on... and so on... and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a smart app. that says: this you decided to get then but do you still need it? that tool comes pre-installed in

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So I decided in the past to get a package and so on... and so on... and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a smart app. that says: this you decided to get then but do you still need it? that

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian! [EXCEPTION]

2007-01-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Just dist-upgraded Sid: 390 packages. Went without a hitch after 36 hours on the dialup v.92 line. Thanks developers! Except... I use yaird to preload usb-storage with mkinitrd.yaird. That did not change in the upgrade but lilo did: lilo 22.6.1-8 -- lilo

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:09:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So I decided in the past to get a package and so on... and so on... and apt dutifully remembers them all: need a smart app. that says: this you decided to get then but do you still need it? Hi, there already is such an app.