On Monday 23 May 2011 15:02:40 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> please feel free to ignore
> any suggestions from my side regarding administering your computer, if
> you don't find them useful. I just happen to enjoy throwing ideas
> around, although sometimes I tend to exagerate ;)
I knew someone once who
On 05/23/2011 05:18 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
forgot about it. May I suggest installing etckeeper? In it's default
configuration it will automatically keep a track of all changes in /etc,
which you can review very easily if you wish with (as root):
# cd /etc
# git log -u
If you make any changes
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:01:47, Lisi wrote:
>
> I have in fact gone on niggling at this. And the instructions page clearly
> says to add those exact lines. I agree with you now. I must have just
> copied and pasted them without registering them.
>
> I clearly do need to add etckeeper as you sugg
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:51:21 Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
[snip]
> > # git commit -a -m ""
> >
> > The big benefit of committing yourself (vs. automatic commits) is you
> > can easily tell from the commit message wh
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
> > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
> > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
> > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
> > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
> > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
> > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
>
> I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having edited a
> preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my system. I
> didn't want updated versions either OOo or Firefox that badly!!
>
> But, as I have said: where
On Sunday 22 May 2011 23:10:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
> > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> > Pin-Priority: 200
> >
> > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
>
> It's just as
On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set
> > > >
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
> > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
> >
> >
On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
>
> For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
>
> It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
It's just as I expected.
> As I said, I have set nothing manually. Aptitude set
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
> > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
>
> [...]
>
> > 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-
Hi,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
>
> Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it up!
> I have never dared touch my preferences file.
[...]
> 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
> release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-back
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:04:09 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
> > I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least,
> > I was two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
>
> Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'.
On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
>
> I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I
> was
> two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> > According to the backports instructions si
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
>On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
>> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> > this isn't required for
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> > this isn't required for
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
> along with the oth
On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
> along with the other repos vi
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