Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-17 Thread user local
2006/12/17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Try looking at cron-apt. Using cron-apt is a great way to always have the latest package info, though I don't suggest changing the configs to have cron-apt automatically install things for you: You should do the installing yourself so you have some

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-17 Thread user local
2006/12/17, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > developers! Nice job. Indeed 'apt-get update' will just update the package *list*. You still need to run 'apt-get update' (or dist-upgrade) to update the packages. # apt-get upgrade after apt-get update apt-get

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:40:19PM +, andy wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: > > > >>What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a > >>way > >>of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would th

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > >As long as your sources.list points only to etch (or testing) you should > >be fine, though you probably should change any 'testing' to 'etch' before the > >release. > >Also, until the release, you could also put t

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Paul Johnson
andy wrote: > Anyway, I just wanted to pick the collective brain here: short of doing > a dist-upgrade with apt-get, or upgrading individual packages, is there > a third way of ensuring that the system-wide software I am running is > up-to-date (although, I don't want bleeding edge from Sid!!)? T

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a way of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would then be cross-referenced to the sources, leading to out-of-date libs, etc.

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: > What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a way > of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would then be > cross-referenced to the sources, leading to out-of-date libs, etc. being > identifie

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: Hey all Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: > Hey all > > Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, > and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have > been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, > I'll let

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: > Hey all > > Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I > must say, it has > been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but > as I haven't been > able to reproduce them, I'll

Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Hey all Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, I'll let those slide for now. Otherwise, this has been a great experienc