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

questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Nigel Henry
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. I will probably keep my Etch install on testing when it goes sta