On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
>After installing Openoffice, I commented out lines of backports.
>When I have installed transmission, I did not commented out lines of
>backports.
>Normally, I install the packages with the following command :
>apt
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:48:13AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 29 January 2010 08:11:06 Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> > Please run packages under pure unstable system if possible to report
> > bugs.
>
> That's *NOT* Debian policy.
I said "if possible".
> DDs are responsible
On Friday 29 January 2010 08:11:06 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Thanks for enthusiastic promotion of Debian unstable.
What? No. I don't run unstable. I run stable on my servers (this can be
verified by checking /etc/debian-release or the version number of a random
sampling of packages) and testing on
Hi Boyd,
Thanks for enthusiastic promotion of Debian unstable.
Please remember there are people behind packages and APT system only
uses information provided by them. Overly confident on Debian system
beyond its providers is not good for you.
You know we run the stable system on most Debian serv
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46:05AM -0800, evenso wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
> >Normally, I install the packages with the following command :
> >aptitude install "package".
>
> Have you trie going into ncurses with the command "aptitude" ? It wi
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
>Normally, I install the packages with the following command :
>aptitude install "package".
Have you trie going into ncurses with the command "aptitude" ? It will give
you some easier ability to resolve dependency issues and s
After installing Openoffice, I commented out lines of backports.
When I have installed transmission, I did not commented out lines of
backports.
Normally, I install the packages with the following command :
aptitude install "package".
Freeman | there is no apt.conf file at /etc/apt/.
However the f
In <20100127131300.ge6...@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> Do I need to create a prefernce file ?...
>
>These are tricks to fool APT.
Not "fool". Apt, by default, treats all remote repositories in one of two
manners "get every package from there" (priority 500) or "get only the
packages
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:42AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
> OS : Lenny 5.0.3
>
> I have installed openoffice from backports
Good move.
> and transmission-gtk from > unstable.
??? I think this is questionable move which is risky for package with
library dependence.
> Do I need to cre
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:59:26PM -0800, evenso wrote:
I should clarify:
>
> I made sure to set it not to make changes automatically. But it never asked
> to uninstall a backports package. (In the ncurses TUI under preferences.)
>
Meaning the ncurses Text User Interface of aptitude.
>
> If
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:12 AM, vishnu vardhan <
vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OS : Lenny 5.0.3
>
> I have installed openoffice from backports and transmission-gtk from
> unstable.
>
> I have read a couple of articles about installing packages from stable,
> unstable, etc.. and pinning
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:42AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote:
>OS : Lenny 5.0.3
>
>I have installed openoffice from backports and transmission-gtk from
>unstable.
>
>I have read a couple of articles about installing packages from stable,
>unstable, etc.. and pinning of packa
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