On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:37:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> but there's lots of overhead for ftp. (okay, i'm exaggerating;
> if you know exactly which file to ftp in advance, you can
> skip all the LS and CD, but there's still some extra finagling
> that HTTP doesn't need.)
Good point. I thin
Jonathan Gift wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:08:18PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> >
> > try
> > apt-setup
> > or if you don't have that,
> > apt-get install base-config
> > which provides it. it lets you select, first of all,
> > which method (http/ftp) to use.
> >
> > my sourc
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:08:18PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
>
> try
> apt-setup
> or if you don't have that,
> apt-get install base-config
> which provides it. it lets you select, first of all,
> which method (http/ftp) to use.
>
> my sources.list resembles this:
>
> deb htt
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:26:53AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> > > BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the
> > > http one and the ftp would be faster.
> >
> > there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how
> > http should be faster.
> >
> > to see
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:44:47PM +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> >
> > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> > anything
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
>
> If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> anything that you don't want coming down the pipe.
You can achieve the same by addi
> > BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the
> > http one and the ftp would be faster.
>
> there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how
> http should be faster.
>
> to see if it's true for you, munge your sources.list to use FTP,
> and do "apt-get
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:10:23AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> > I don't see anyone having replied yet, so
> >
> > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> > packages to be upgraded. You can then sa
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> I don't see anyone having replied yet, so
>
> If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> anything that you don't want coming
Thanks for the feedback. Someone had earlier also suggested using apt(get
-u upgrade to get the list and it worked. I'll keep yours on file as
well.
Jonathan
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