Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> 2009/4/15 orange > > I see, thanks for clarification. > > Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with > > 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will > > work. > > IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- > > upgrade and co

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread Raffaele
2009/4/15 orange > > I see, thanks for clarification. > Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with > 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will > work. > IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- > upgrade and config files

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-15 Thread orange
I see, thanks for clarification. Could someone please confirm that simply replacing 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list (and then pressing u and U in aptitude) will work. IIRC, in past it used to be much more complicated, with some dist- upgrade and config files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <475ba7a4-004c-4a44-8898-7d6f1a4ee...@o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, orange wrote: >I still don't understand why the (security) update was allowed to >change menu.lst without asking for any confirmation. update-grub is run by the kernel package's postinst script. This is been true for quite

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
On Apr 7, 9:50 pm, Harry Rickards wrote: > Quoting orange : > > > I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: > > > debftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/lenny contrib main > > debftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-securitylenny/updates main > > contrib non-free > > > #wine > >

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting orange : I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main ... While those se

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread orange
I took the advice from email (thanks Harry), and put only these lines: deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free #wine deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main it updated :) but bad thing happened af

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-07 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Thorny wrote: > On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:30:43 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar[ अभिषेक] > posted: > >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: >>> It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian >>> system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is ma

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT) orange wrote: Hello orange, > would it work if I just replace 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list? Yes. I have always "testing" rather than etch, lenny, etc. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnev

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
geez, but I wanted to be on 'testing' forever! I still have bad memories of not being able to run many important software on 'stable'. would it work if I just replace 'lenny' with 'testing' in sources.list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Harry Rickards : ... To find the fastest debian mirror for you, you can use the netselect tool. Once installed (aptitude install netselect-apt_, you can just use the command 'netselect-apt lenny' (or 'netselect-apt -n lenny' to include non-free software), and netselect will find th

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Sven Joachim : On 2009-04-06 15:46 +0200, orange wrote: this is my sources.list : #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib #deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main deb ftp://ftp.at.de

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Philipp Pagel
orange wrote: > Abhishek Amberkar [ ?? ] wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: > > > It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian > this is my sources.list : > #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Thorny
[...] > deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb > ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main See the way my lines wrapped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:30:43 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar[ अभिषेक] posted: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: >> It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian >> system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update (and >> it has been like that for sever

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-06 15:46 +0200, orange wrote: > this is my sources.list : > > > #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib > #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib > > #deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib main > deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread orange
Abhishek Amberkar [ अभिषेक ] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: > > It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian > > system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update > > (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Montag, 6. April 2009 schrieb orange: > It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian > system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update > (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to > verify that the system is up-to-date (for sure)?

Re: updating with aptitude

2009-04-06 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, orange wrote: > It seems that apt(itude) has stopped updating my (testing) Debian > system. I press 'u', and then 'U' but nothing is marked for update > (and it has been like that for several days now). Is there a way to > verify that the system is up-to-date (for s

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:06:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I have

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 08:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On my sid system there are still packages from stable and testing, > > though I do a dist-upgrade at least every week. This is why I consider > > it best to keep sources also for stable and testing a

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 April 2006 08:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On my sid system there are still packages from stable and testing, > though I do a dist-upgrade at least every week. This is why I consider > it best to keep sources also for stable and testing and just change > your default release in apt.conf

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:06:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: >> > > Hello >> > > I have a lap

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:13:10AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > > > Hello > > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > > update them t

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > > Hello > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > > aptitude, is this possible and if

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:44:06PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > > Hello > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > > aptitude, is

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:12:48PM -0500, lostson wrote: > Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to > > Begin: Waiting for root file system > > it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! at what stage? details man! also, please try not to top post. A signa

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread lostson
Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to Begin: Waiting for root file system it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > > Hello > > I

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > Hello > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > Or can I jsut use

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +, lostson wrote: > Hello > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > Or can I jsut use