Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:55, Amit Joshi wrote: > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to stay > uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades? No, I don't regularly update my testing machine. I have a list of favorite packages (like vim, konsole, firefox, texmacs etc.,) writ

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:16:59AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:25:19 +0530 > Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Amit, > > > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to > > stay uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades? not usually daily. More l

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:25:19 +0530 Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Amit, > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to > stay uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades? I tend to do it when I remember. :-) That usually means every four to five days. At worst, weekly

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Amit Joshi wrote: > Maybe I will simulate this upgrade and see what versions are the packages > gonna be upgraded to. > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to stay > uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades? aptitude update aptitude -F "%p %25V %25v" search ~U will show thr

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread Amit Joshi
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:22, anson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > >> While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of > >> packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this > >>

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread anson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this output where it mentions the size et al. The size of the _to_be_fe

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:07:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > > > While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of > > packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this > > output

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:46:07 +0530 Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Amit, > this output where it mentions the size et al. The size of the > _to_be_fetched_ packages is 227MB, while it is gonna use around 1.5MB > of disk-space?? Read the report again; It will say something along the l

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-22 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of > packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this output > where it mentions the size et al. The size of the _to_be_fetched_ packages is

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-21 Thread Steve!
It'll be upgrading a heap of files, so, it'll delete the old ones (225.5MB of old ones) and download the new ones (227MB), Hope 'm explaining this right, I've had no sleep! $shutdowm -h now www.timerider.co.uk - Original Message - From: "Amit Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wed