RE: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough - it won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts. Okay, what does it mean when it says there is nothing to upgrade? I have a basic woody installation and /etc/apt/spurces.list says stable,

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Roger Barnes wrote: Okay, what does it mean when it says there is nothing to upgrade? I have a basic woody installation and /etc/apt/spurces.list says stable, not woody. I am trying the Pacific.net.au mirror. http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/dists/stable/Release says that stable ==

RE: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Perhaps this is wrongly formatted. deb ftp://ftp.debian.pacific.net.au/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free Otherwise, itmst be the seven woody CDroms listed first in /etc/apt/sources.list. You need the base debian repository (you may want to replace your CD based

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:04:31 +1000, Michael Lake uttered I have a server running Debian stable where perl is v5.6.1. I need 5.8 for installing a library application. I have never done/used mixed systems before or done apt pinning. Am I going to do this right? The following procedure was

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Steve Kowalik wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:04:31 +1000, Michael Lake uttered I have a server running Debian stable where perl is v5.6.1. I need 5.8 for installing a library application. I have never done/used mixed systems before or done apt pinning. Am I going to do this right? The

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Michael, Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough - it won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts. Of course, if you're running a production system, you'd want to watch closely what gets upgraded and removed. I always run apt-get -V

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Simon Bowden wrote: Michael, Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough - it won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts. Of course, if you're running a production system, you'd want to watch closely what gets upgraded and removed. I

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:06 +1000, Michael Lake uttered There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act. I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded ! Perl is amoung those to be upgraded. so I presume that I'll go with the above. It's a bit

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Steve Kowalik wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:06 +1000, Michael Lake uttered There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act. I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded ! Perl is amoung those to be upgraded. so I presume that I'll go with

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Michael Lake wrote: Basically then for the virt server I should do a dist-upgrade with the current sources.list set at stable and that will bring all packages up to the current Debian release? Thanks for the help guys. I did that dist-upgrade. Well I can still ssh in and its serving its web

Re: [SLUG] Help with apt-get pinning

Simon Bowden wrote: Michael, Do a dist-upgrade, not an upgrade. An upgrade doesn't try hard enough - it won't remove packages. dist-upgrade does, thus can resolve conflicts. Okay, what does it mean when it says there is nothing to upgrade? I have a basic woody installation and