Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 02:02:41AM +, s. keeling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > hope something starts to work soon. It has before. If you are on > > adial-up, I hope you have a package caceh somewhere so you won't have to > > repeatedly download the same package

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hope something starts to work soon. It has before. If you are on > adial-up, I hope you have a package caceh somewhere so you won't have to > repeatedly download the same packages as you try different approaches. The various package managers are a

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The > systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The > particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7 > transition. Fortunatel

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
macondo escribe: > I dist-upgraded from sarge to etch and went thru the same pains. I > boxed with xserver-org for an hour and got all beat up. Finally, i > opted to move to sid, but i did not like it, at least it was working, > something that did not happened with etch, my spanish keyboard did not

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread macondo
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The > systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The > particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7 > transition. It's a real trick to get it

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7 transition. It's a real trick to get it to upgrade, especially if th

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > One of my Sarge installs I will keep on the stable repo, which on dialup > > will be a lot of fun, as it upgrades to Etch Make sure there is *plenty* of space. I found the upgra

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat December 23 2006 11:17, Baz wrote: > On 12/23/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > > > testing repo. I've seen more than one post saying that testing wa

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Baz
On 12/23/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > testing repo. I've seen more than one post saying that testing was frozen, > but since then I've had more updates for

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > testing repo. I've seen more than one post saying that testing was frozen, > but since then I've had more updates for Etch, and tonight another 50MB of > updates. There wil

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 07:33:50PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've presently got 2 Sarge installs on the stable repo, and Etch on the > testing repo. I've seen more than one post saying that testing was frozen, > but since then I've had more updates for Etch, and tonight another 50MB of > updat