stretch-backports vs stretch-updates

2017-10-04 Thread Victor Porton
I want my upgrades to get both from stretch-backports and stretch-updates. How to configure apt to get both? What should be /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/preferences? -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

Re: Why stretch-backports does not work for kate package?

2017-10-02 Thread Victor Porton
stall from stretch by default. It works just fine. > On 02.10.2017 15:53, Victor Porton wrote: >> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >> deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free >> deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib

Why stretch-backports does not work for kate package?

2017-10-02 Thread Victor Porton
bqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?

2017-10-01 Thread Victor Porton
Victor Porton wrote: > We are going to install a range of software on a Debian Linux > installation. Because we run the same software (such as Celery) several > times, we need to use port numbers different than the standard Debian port > numbers chosen by default (because we can

Re: Free TCP/IP port numbers?

2017-09-30 Thread Victor Porton
er to my question is wrong. > On 01.10.2017 06:04, Victor Porton wrote: >> We are going to install a range of software on a Debian Linux >> installation. Because we run the same software (such as Celery) several >> times, we need to use port numbers different than the standard

Free TCP/IP port numbers?

2017-09-30 Thread Victor Porton
icated (so that they wouldn't clash with "standard" that is used by default port numbers) for servers configured by users? Note that we run (at least some of) our software not as root, so we can't use ports below 1024. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

How often to reboot a production Web server?

2013-03-06 Thread Victor Porton
I've setup a VPS based on Debian 6 yesterday. Today I've run `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` to get security fixes. It updated libc6 and some other essential packages. Should I reboot my production Web server? If yes, how often? -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.or