Re: Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:50:07PM -0400, Marty wrote: > I suppose that if you include in sources.list to the old > distribution archive repositories (which I think goes at least as > far back as slink) then any packages which still aren't recognized > are presumably from a third party repository.

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Maurice O'Regan wrote: > How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. > using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. > > Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? Yes, in "/etc/network/interfaces". See "man 5 interfaces"

Finding the origin of a package installed by APT

2005-06-23 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
My current machine has a number of packages installed from backports which no longer exist, so will not be upgraded should there be any security problems. I am about to reinstall my machine so would like to avoid this in the future. I have a partial solution, but have hit a problem in my understand