On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > 7) Safe inter-dist upgrades, rexx-slink, bo-slink, hamm-slink and others
> > As well as making dselect safer to use for these upgrades should you
> > choose to go that way (not recommended!)
>
> Why are you saying not recommended? Are yo
> > So what advantage is there of running apt-get over the more
> > traditional - run mirror, then install using dselect?
>
> mirror?!?! You want to mirror the entire 700 meg binary-386 directory and
> then install it?? Ik.
Yes you do have a point here. The advantage of doing this of course
is,
At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
>> >
>> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
>> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
>> > in [..
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
> >
> > Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
> > shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
> > errors and never call dpkg. If you r
> > What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
>
> Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
> shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
> errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should-
> be fine but st
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
> >
> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
> > in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until
>
> >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
>
> apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
> downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
> in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded
> the lot, so make sure you have en
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ben Messinger wrote:
> This happened to me, and apt did resume and finish - but the package
> that it was getting when the ppp link was severed got corrupted (or
> incomplete download). All other packages were ok, but this was the cause
> of much sorrow when the corrupt packa
Rafael Kitover wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
> > thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
snip
> >
> > What hap
On 19 Jan 99 07:17:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips)
wrote:
>I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
>thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
>
>apt-get update
>apt-get dist-upgrade
Yep.
>Is this at all dangerous?
Slink hasn't been released officially,
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
> MH> is?
>
> Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
>
> Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
>
> There have been package splits, dselect will get them
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> >> "MH" == Mark Herrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
> MH> is?
>
> Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
>
> Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
>
>> "MH" == Mark Herrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
MH> is?
Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
There have been package splits, dselect will get them, apt-
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is?
> --
> From: Rafael Kitover[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:53 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to sli
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
> thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is set to get files from
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