Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:27:56AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Instead could you skip step 1 and do it: > > 1. apt-get install foo > 1.1 apt queries SQL server "SELECT * FROM packages WHERE package=foo, > architecture=i386, operatingsystem=linux" > 1.2 apt gets result, and installs package. > > Th

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:54:17PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you don't mind downloading the packages, you can just use > > apt-listchanges. It will sort its output by urgency, and you can use that > > information to decide which packages

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Christensen
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > These ideas sound great to me. In case they don't get implemented, or until > > they do, would it be hard to cook up a script that does what I want, even if > > it involves downloa

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > These ideas sound great to me. In case they don't get implemented, or until > they do, would it be hard to cook up a script that does what I want, even if > it involves downloading the packages to see the changelogs? If you don't

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Christensen
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have > > had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last > > upgraded? > > I had an idea (and a w

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:01:44AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I discussed the idea a bit with James Troup, and one of his > Matt> concerns was that the database would be centralized, not > Matt> distributed over many

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I discussed the idea a bit with James Troup, and one of his Matt> concerns was that the database would be centralized, not Matt> distributed over many mirrors like the packages themselves. Matt> This would be a scalab

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:27, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs > Matt> from source packages and insert them into a SQL database. > Matt> My original intention was to allow

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:28:09PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >I know about apt-listchanges but, AFAIU, it extracts the changelog from >the .deb files. So you cannot get this changelog before downloading the >.deb packages. It's when I'm still in dselect deciding which packages to >

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > [...] > > > >Yum. I'd love to see the changelog in dselect before I decide whether > > to upgrade a package or not. > > :-) > > apt-get install apt-listcha

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:56:10PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to > > allow apt-listchanges to

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > [...] > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages > > and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to allow > > apt-listchanges to display change

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > packages > and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to allow > apt-listchanges to display changelogs for packages before downloading them, > but > such

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs Matt> from source packages and insert them into a SQL database. Matt> My original intention was to allow apt-listchanges to Matt> display changelogs for packa

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:10:32PM -0500, Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to > > allow

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages > Mail-Followup-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, May 01, 2001

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have > had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last > upgraded? (And any necessary dependencies, of course.) I'm thinking > of this for the unst

upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Christensen
Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last upgraded? (And any necessary dependencies, of course.) I'm thinking of this for the unstable distribution. The idea is to frequently do such upgrades to get any