On 19 Jan 99 07:17:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips)
wrote:
I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Yep.
Is this at all dangerous?
Slink hasn't been released officially, so
Rafael Kitover wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
snip
What happens if my ppp link
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ben Messinger wrote:
This happened to me, and apt did resume and finish - but the package
that it was getting when the ppp link was severed got corrupted (or
incomplete download). All other packages were ok, but this was the cause
of much sorrow when the corrupt package
What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded
the lot, so make sure you have enough
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's
What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should-
be fine but strange
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg
At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
in [...]/partial. It
So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more
traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect?
mirror?!?! You want to mirror the entire 700 meg binary-386 directory and
then install it?? Ik.
Yes you do have a point here. The advantage of doing this of course
is, that
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
7) Safe inter-dist upgrades, rexx-slink, bo-slink, hamm-slink and others
As well as making dselect safer to use for these upgrades should you
choose to go that way (not recommended!)
Why are you saying not recommended? Are you
Hi,
I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Is this at all dangerous?
What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
Thanks,
Mark.
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is set to get files from slink
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is?
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From: Rafael Kitover[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:53 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
On Tue, Jan 19
MH == Mark Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MH Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
MH is?
Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
There have been package splits, dselect will get them, apt-get
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
MH == Mark Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MH Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
MH is?
Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
There have
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
MH Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
MH is?
Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
There have been package splits, dselect will get them, apt-get
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