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 say no to continuing and put on hold > > anything that you don't want coming down the pipe. > > They did, thanks, and one with the same advice. I'll cc this to the list > so no one else gets caught. > > 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 update" and then put it back to HTTP, and do "apt-get update" again and see which one really really sucks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/ volunteer to document your experience for next week's newbies -- http://www.eGroups.com/messages/newbieDoc
