Re: Building and upgrading a package...

2008-01-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:07:14PM +, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello, >Im maintaining my own debian due to some compile options requirements. >So, here's my problem. >A few weeks i've built a package version 8.0.1-1. >I've copied it properly to my

Building and upgrading a package...

2008-01-15 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello, Im maintaining my own debian due to some compile options requirements. So, here's my problem. A few weeks i've built a package version 8.0.1-1. I've copied it properly to my repo and was able to install the package the systems with "aptitude install". Today i've built the

Re: Upgrading a Package

2002-12-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 08:45 pm, Anoop K Vijay wrote: > Hi, >I am using debian 3.0 stable version.Now i would like to install > cyrus21imapd in the stable version.The package is available in unstable > version.So how can i configure apt-get for this installation? Can anybody > help me? >

Upgrading a Package

2002-12-25 Thread Anoop K Vijay
Hi, I am using debian 3.0 stable version.Now i would like to install cyrus21imapd in the stable version.The package is available in unstable version.So how can i configure apt-get for this installation? Can anybody help me? Regards Anoop Anoop.V.K, System Administrator, Amrita Institutions,

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-02 Thread Nick Croft
I think you're looking for console-apt, aka capt. The same package is being further developed as deity, available either as deity-gtk or deity-curses, from cvs. Nick

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-02 Thread der.hans
Am 01. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Stig Brautaset so: > dpkg --get-selections > selections > > then edit the file "selections" so that the word "hold" is replaced > with "installed" for the package you want to hold, and then: > > dpkg --set-selections < selections echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-se

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 06:37:56PM +0100): > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package apt-console my bad. console-apt. it's in stable, but i couldn't find it in testing anymore... martin; (greetings from the h

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Henry White
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:47:44PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 05:40:53PM +0100): > > dselect is evil, I am sure of it. > > try apt-console. > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:40:53PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > bah. dselect is one of the most confusing things I have ever > seen. Much easier to do: > > dpkg --get-selections > selections > > then edit the file "selections" so that the word "hold" is replaced > with "installed" for the packa

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
"Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 05:40:53PM +0100): > > dselect is evil, I am sure of it. > > try apt-console. arwen:~# apt-console su: apt-console: command not found arwen:~# apt-get install apt-console Reading Package Lists... D

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:14:52AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Given this, it's unclear to me why one would want to use apt-get upgrade. Because it's safer, and less likely to bork your system, I suppose. It'll keep your system up to date without changing your package configuration at all. -Nel

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 05:40:53PM +0100): > dselect is evil, I am sure of it. try apt-console. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "it usually takes more than three weeks to p

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:08PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when > > using dist-upgrade? > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > the cabal

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:19:13PM -0400): > From the apt-get man page: [SNIP] > Basically, 'dist-upgrade' uses a more aggressive approach to upgrades. > 'upgrade' will only play with packages already installed on the > system, whereas dist-upgrade will add new ones or delete

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:35:41PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > > the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) > > but as far as i know, you only wa

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, July 1, Martin F. Krafft did write: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > > the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) > > but as far as i know, you only want to place a

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Cam Ellison
I couldn't write a good explanation, but I do know that apt-get dist-upgrade took my version of potato from 2.2r0 to 2.2r3 in one move, and changed out a lot of apps that apt-get upgrade had not touched. "Martin F. Krafft" wrote: > > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200)

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:42:22PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I know about dselect (always used to use it) but since moving to apt-get > I'm not sure how the two interact. Simple. You set dselect's access method to "apt" in dselect. Then you run "update" in dselect. It makes apt do all th

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > > the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) > > but as far as i know, you only want to place a "hold" onto

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) but as far as i know, you only want to place a "hold" onto that package, then use apt-get for the dist-upgrad

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:08PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when > using dist-upgrade? It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) Don't forget

how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when using dist-upgrade? -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acam