On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:27:13PM +0100, Niall Brady wrote:
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> I apologise whore-hartedly four my crazy engrish. foo.
er, *gulp*, I should :-)
Sorry, brainfry must have hit when I was writing that email, and
the apt paragraph became part of the bsd one. What I was trying
to
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:43:24PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> >
> > > incantation is if it exists) to update a package and all it's
> > > dependencies at the moment, safely.
> >
> > zap safely :-) Can't be done at all...
>
> If there is a new version available in the sources defined in
> /etc/apt
bah... I get dozy if I get up too early :-)
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:48:42PM +0100, Niall Brady wrote:
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> The problem is (and I'm not too hot on apt, so forgive me if I'm
> wrong :-) that by default you can do 'apt upgrade' (or whatever the
s/can/can\'t/
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:29:56PM -0400, Sean wrote:
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> The BSD ports system is one where you download source instead of
> binaries. The Gentoo distribution has a similar system, with it's
> portage and emerge programs.
To be more precise it
* Is all based around Makefiles
* Do
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:09:07 +1100, you wrote:
>
> Apt-get is a great tool, however it insists on installing everything in /usr.
> Which means that it is
> difficult to make use of extra hard drives.
???
could you elaborate?
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