On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:23 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:48 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > > On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" > <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install > from an > > > > > > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and > > > then to > > > > > > copy back configs and data and to install additional stuff. > And > > > what > > > > > > is > > > > > > > > > > Fair enough. Whatever works, works. :) > > > > > > > > > > > Btw. at the moment I can't install libslv2-dev, because > there's > > > a > > > > > > dependency missing for Debian stable?! If I should e.g. > solve > > > this > > > > > > issue, I won't have to do this again, when a backup is > needed. > > > > > > > > > > I had no trouble installing libslv2-dev on any of my squeeze > > > systems. > > > > > Possibly a conflict from another repository? > > > > > > > > Yep, I need to do a fresh Debian testing install. I started with > > > Debian > > > > stable and now I know that I need testing, but I guess I've got > an > > > > uncertain mix of stable and testing. > > > > > > > > > > You can use packages from both (IIRC its a setting in apt.conf). > What > > > I'd suggest is to have a test (sandbox) type box (preferably a vm > > > where you can revert to a snapshot) and make your own repository > from > > > that that your production hosts use. > > > > > > > > > > chroot might be an option, but this could cause a lot of unneeded > issues > > and I guess a virtual machine can't be used, at least I don't know > how > > to ensure that this emulates the real behaviour, when using > professional > > audio cards etc.. If there e.g. is jitter, is it caused by the > > visualisation or is it regarding to the real hardware and drivers? > > For a DAW you're dealing with HPET, timer resolution is 1000000000 > Hz, > > expected jitter for e.g. hw MIDI is far below a millisecond. > > > > I wasn't talking about configuring your software much on the vm. Just > using the vm to make sure everything you need will install correctly > and staging packages to update your production boxes from. This way, > you know when there's an issue between stable and testing packages > ahead of time. Then you point your production box to your local repo > of known good packages and let them update from that. > > This is sorta out of the realm of 'backup'. But sense you mentioned > needing to figure what stable vs testing packages you have, I just > figured is throw out what I'd do (its ten minutes more effort and will > save tons of headache down the road).
Ok, now I do understand :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307039898.2027.64.camel@debian
