On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, John Hasler wrote:
From debian-policy:
hi John,
Thank you for this very useful reply. I think that it is a good
practice, when giving an information, to give also the way to get it,
(it is sometimes enough to give the link to the doc, when available)
I install
>From debian-policy:
E.1 Automatic handling of configuration files by dpkg
A package may contain a control information file called
conffiles. This file should be a list of filenames of c
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:59:50, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> >You must be confusing this with the regular behavior.
>
>I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is
>the "regular behaviour", i.e. the default one.
>Details are giv
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:
You must be confusing this with the regular behavior.
I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is
the "regular behaviour", i.e. the default one.
Details are given for all --force-things, but I found nothing on what
happe
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 12:14:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> To replace also the modified files, I added in apt.conf
> "--force-confask";
> I think there was a time where this was the default with apt-get
You must be confusing this with the regular behavior. From 'man dpkg'
(emphasis
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I understand this behaviour for a removed conffile. but not for a
> modified one: I imagine that aptitude doesn't know whether this
> conffile comes from a previous version or not.
The package management system knows what version was installed
previously and the checksums
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
You said you removed the file. You didn't say you modified it.
Sorry, I forgot to say it.
I did both tests. Actually, I removed the file after seeing that it
was not replaced.
Of course asking is still the default for apt-get! But you said you
we
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>Actually, the increase is impressive
>I changed to one of the listed mirrors.
Oh good.
> >Right. You removed it. It is a conffile. Therefore the system
> >respects your changes to that file. Including removing it. The
> >system views removi
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
Better to use a mirror. Take a look at the amount of bandwidth used
by the main site. Wow!
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/statistics.php
hi Bob,
Actually, the increase is impressive
I changed to one of the listed mirrors.
Right. You remov
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
> >you have installed?
>
> it's difficult for me to understand this mess;
> I am on Squeeze. apt version is
> 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
That looks normal.
>deb http://ftp.fr.deb
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:
I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
you have installed?
hi Bob,
it's difficult for me to understand this mess;
I am on Squeeze. apt version is
0.8.10.3+squeeze1
here is my source.list
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Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> Looking in the log for cron.daily, I discovered the following problem:
>
> /etc/cron.daily/apt contains a line:
> apt-key net-update
I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do
you have installed?
$ dpkg --status apt | awk '/Version:/{pr
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