Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > > Thanks. > > hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) On my system with local disks I think it took less than an hour to copy the Lenny 48G of source and binaries for i386 and am

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 apr 12, 22:31:16, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Sneaky. I'll look if I can hack debmirror to avoid the copy. > Thanks. hardlinks? (assuming it's the same filesystem) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listi

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-12 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2012-04-10 20:48 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > In my case I simply set up a separate mirror for Lenny and pointed the > upstream source to my local mirror. Then ran the mirror script to > pull the packages from the existing local mirror into the new lenny > mirror. The packages transfer very qui

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Andre Majorel wrote: > One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared > from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release > from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages > somewhere. I am in exactly the same situation. I have some special cases that

debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages somewhere. First thought is to generate a list of file names from dists/lenny/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz and

Re: How to deal with packages that only in an old release?

2010-08-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Armnotstrong wrote: >Recently I'm trying to synchronize my wm6.1 mobile-phone with debian >squeeze ,I found a project named "synce"can help me do this, so I >followed the guide for debian lenny on the website of the project >(http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Debian), but I can't f

How to deal with packages that only in an old release?

2010-08-25 Thread Armnotstrong
Hi,everyone Recently I'm trying to synchronize my wm6.1 mobile-phone with debian squeeze ,I found a project named "synce"can help me do this, so I followed the guide for debian lenny on the website of the project (http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Debian), but I can't find some packages

Re: Old Release

2004-12-21 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:53:35PM +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > how do i upgrade my package, (ex:KDE), should i switch my source to > debian package repository ? and if yes, what repository should i use ? If you have broadband, or are prepared to wait for a while, you can update to testing (sarg

Re: Old Release

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Monday 20 Dec 2004 16:53, Muhammad Reza wrote: > >Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I > > point you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which will > > make getting answers to your debian based questions easier. > > Thanks for the link, > > >This is b

Re: Old Release

2004-12-20 Thread Muhammad Reza
Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I point you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which will make getting answers to your debian based questions easier. Thanks for the link, This is because you are running woody, also known as stable. The idea be

Re: Old Release

2004-12-20 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 21:20, Muhammad Reza wrote: > Dear List > > I'm new int this list and noob in Debian, but already success install my > first Debian Woody 3.0r3. > My question is : Ok, you are asking two questions here, Before answering them, can I point you at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smar

Re: Old Release

2004-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 04:20 +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote: > Dear List > > I'm new int this list and noob in Debian, but already success install my > first Debian Woody 3.0r3. > My question is : > 1. Why in this release, package such as KDE, XFree86..etc even the > kernel it self seem old version.

Old Release

2004-12-20 Thread Muhammad Reza
Dear List I'm new int this list and noob in Debian, but already success install my first Debian Woody 3.0r3. My question is : 1. Why in this release, package such as KDE, XFree86..etc even the kernel it self seem old version. 2. How to made my own linux disto from debian ? please give me referenc