Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Wilderspin
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Messinger
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Michael Lea
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Phillips
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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

apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Phillips
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.

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
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

RE: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Herrick
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is? -- 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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
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

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
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