Re: Upgrade script for libata transition

2009-12-29 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:09:05 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby shared this with us all: >> Ben Hutchings : >> On upgrade, we will recommend that users identify hard disk volumes >> in configuration files by label or UUID > >What is the recommended tool for getting the UUID? > I use blkid Charlie -

Re: Upgrade script for libata transition

2009-12-29 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Ben Hutchings : > On upgrade, we will recommend that users identify hard disk volumes in > configuration files by label or UUID What is the recommended tool for getting the UUID? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-07 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:40:07AM -0400, Scott Henson wrote.. > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:53, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > This is my crontab to do nightly mantinence on my system(backups to be > added as soon as I get my new server up and running :-D) > > # use /bin/sh to run commands, no m

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-07 Thread Carlos Sousa
rade" 30 7,15,23 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/apt-upgrade | tee "$UPGTMP" -8<-8<-8<-8<-8<-8<-8<-8<-8<- which tries to download upgraded packages and send the results to me by mail, as well as storing them in

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:53, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Hi, I've heard people can write some scripts and put it in a cron job > that do a dist-upgrade on their system then send what've been upgraded > to their emails. Can someone share how they did it ? thanks This is my crontab to do nightly mant

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> Can someone share how they did it ? $ man crontab apt-get > thanks It was a pleasure... le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg00969/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-05 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, I've heard people can write some scripts and put it in a cron job that do a dist-upgrade on their system then send what've been upgraded to their emails. Can someone share how they did it ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Upgrade script

1998-05-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Scott D. Killen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find the script that prepares my 1.3.1 system for upgrade > to hamm? Any help is greatly appreciated... http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup or ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup AFIK the latest version of autoup.sh is v0.25. A rec

Upgrade script

1998-05-23 Thread Scott D. Killen
Where can I find the script that prepares my 1.3.1 system for upgrade to hamm? Any help is greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance! -- Scott D. Killen Scott Killen Software http://www.scottkillensoftware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, I sent a message to the testing list and to Craig noting that I had found two bugs that cause v0.17 of autoup to fail. I included diffs from v0.17 to my v0.18. As of yesterday, both Craig's ftp site and yours still had v0.17. If you wish, I can send these diffs to

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, dpk wrote: > I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to > hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it > somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent > version of this and instructions/tips for using

libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it? Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:05:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > worse than ever now :-). there are over 1700 packages in hamm (counting > main, contrib, non-free, and non-US)...several hundred more than in bo. Just FYI, there are only 460 odd in main in buzz! That's progress ... Hamish -- Ha

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, Craig! > > I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in > Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. glad to hear it. > Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. worse t

Re: version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Craig! I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me. Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful. Thank you, Sasha. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubsc

version 0.11 of auto upgrade script

1998-01-17 Thread Craig Sanders
this fixes all of the bugs reported by users in the last few days. if i've missed forgotten or forgotten anything, remind me. changes in this version: # v0.11: 1998-01-11 (Craig Sanders) # - a user reported that localebin conflicted with libc6. added to remove # list. # - fixed potenti

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote: > > try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think > > of. > > > > are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of > > dpkg-ftp too... > > > > BTW, which version of the upg

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: [ snip! ] : : I too have been having trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org. : When I try to ftp there, I get the following: : : Connected to santanni.cc.gatech.edu. : 220 santanni.cc.gatech.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Tue Oct 7 12

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:39:24PM -0600, IBMackey wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > > The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you > > start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will > > attempt to make an ftp connection,

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
/unstable/contrib" > > for the list of distributions to get. > > > > Any ideas?? > > try reinstalling the dpkg-ftp package is the only thing i can think of. > > are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp > too... > >

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-15 Thread IBMackey
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you > start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will > attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection > is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
The obvious question (please don't take offense) is: Did you start ppp before entering dselect? dselect, or rather dpkg-ftp, will attempt to make an ftp connection, but assumes that a ppp connection is up. It does not check, AFAIK, to see if there is such a connection. Bob On Wed, 14 Jan

Re: Upgrade script, bo to hamm

1998-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
only thing i can think of. are you behind a firewall of any kind? check your configuration of dpkg-ftp too... BTW, which version of the upgrade script did you run? craig -- craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

version 0.8 of libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
I just ran this script on an old system (somewhere between rex and bo) with lots of -dev packages installed. found and fixed two bugs. - libc6 conflicts with libpthread0 - i made a typo... PKGS_GPP instead of PKGS_LIBGPP. - some old version of perl's postrm didn't delete a .packlist

Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
oops. i hard-coded 'binary-i386'. mea culpa. ---cut here--- #! /bin/sh DPKG=`which dpkg` LDCONFIG=`which ldconfig` # uncomment for debugging #set -x #DPKG="echo dpkg" #DCONFIG="echo LDCONFIG" # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent "Debian libc5 t

Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
here's another update to igor's latest version. this one: - avoids duplicated code - tells the user what it's doing - has more error checking - guesses at the location of the mirror enjoy! ---cut here--- #! /bin/sh DPKG=`which dpkg` LDCONFIG=`which ldconfig` #

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Igor Grobman wrote: > > > This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last > one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir > instead of a local mirror requirement. llug.sep.bnl.gov is a public nfs mount for debian. You can point the s

Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-10 Thread Igor Grobman
This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir instead of a local mirror requirement. This script still needs testing. --cut here-- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (h

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a > freshly installed bo. > > Watch out for line folding. > > # sanity check that we are in the right place > [ -f base/libc6_* ] || exit 9 9 is already used for perl_base failure.

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
I hope this is the final version for a while. The script works here on a freshly installed bo. Watch out for line folding. --- cut here --- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent "Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO" # document at http://www