Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-12 Thread bob
On 04/11/2014 02:56 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: 8< snip Thus my question: Is it possible to use debmirror, to mirror stable,testing,sid as well as debian-security for stable and testing, and have them all share the same package pool? I can't see it, and I'm hoping I am simply not

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 11/04/14 15:25, Lisi Reisz wrote: ("One" is very clumsy in > English, but in this case I felt that the second person would appear > to target Zenaan.) Best Queen's English, Lisi ;) -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 11 April 2014 03:46:49 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In my foggy memory, that at least for debian stable, I seem to > remember something about security updates all get collected up, > possibly with other updates (??) and they become the next stable > point release. Erm... No! I can accept th

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Thus my question: >> Is it possible to use debmirror, to mirror stable,testing,sid as well >> as debian-security for stable and testing, and have them all share the >> same package pool? >

Re: mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Thus my question: > Is it possible to use debmirror, to mirror stable,testing,sid as well > as debian-security for stable and testing, and have them all share the > same package pool? In particular, for example, I stopped my initial debian-secu

mirroring debian-security, sharing package pool with stable/testing/sid pool

2014-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
lap between the debian-security package pool, and the normal debian stable/testing pools. Thus my question: Is it possible to use debmirror, to mirror stable,testing,sid as well as debian-security for stable and testing, and have them all share the same package pool? I can't see it, and I'

Re: Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors

2011-02-02 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Well, this might actually be your problem, try downgrading to 4.4.5-8 > from Squeeze.  Apparently the experimental libstdc++6 version does not > work with Lenny's glibcš. That worked to get me moving forward again. I had to install gcc-base-

Re: Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors

2011-02-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-02 19:21 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote: >> >>> I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and >>> upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm

Re: Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors

2011-02-02 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and >> upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm) and I >> wanted to get it to testing. Its running trin

Re: Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors

2011-02-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-02 18:42 +0100, Brad Alexander wrote: > I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and > upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm) and I > wanted to get it to testing. Its running trinity as well. > > So I updated the apt-conf to > > APT::Defau

Upgrade stable -> testing -- with errors

2011-02-02 Thread Brad Alexander
I may have just shot myself in the foot, but I decided to go ahead and upgrade my wife's machine. It was running stable (lenny atm) and I wanted to get it to testing. Its running trinity as well. So I updated the apt-conf to APT::Default-Release "testing"; (My base sources.list includes links fo

Re: New (LAN) web server: do I use stable, testing or unstable?

2004-07-07 Thread Micha Feigin
p server and some > other server-services. > > Of course I'm using Debian as the OS. > > I'm just not sure whether to use stable, testing or unstable. > If you can use stable its probably a better choice. On my home firewall I setup stable. It doesn't need much u

Re: New (LAN) web server: do I use stable, testing or unstable?

2004-07-06 Thread Kent West
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: I've recently acquired a 2nd hand PC I want to use as a web server. Now, finally, here's my question: What version would you recommend? And, of course, why? stable Because it's, well, stable. And that's presumably what you want in a server. If you find you can't stand it

New (LAN) web server: do I use stable, testing or unstable?

2004-07-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
;t intend to leave a keyboard and monitor connected to it. Maybe later I'll want to experiment with a ftp server and some other server-services. Of course I'm using Debian as the OS. I'm just not sure whether to use stable, testing or unstable. Stable (woody) is, you know, stable, whi

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-27 Thread Lucas Albers
somebody said: >>>systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2 >>>years, and haven't had a lot of trouble; indeed once my mail servers >>> went >>>down for a few hours for that reason, but my mail servers are always >>> looking >>>for an excuse to go down. Use ssh-agent, a

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-26 Thread Nate Duehr
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:07:46PM -0400, David Gaudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: and if ththeresroblem with MTMTApgrade ?:) True, now and then I have to count the subject lines to make sure all systems are accounted for. But it's still better than logging in to all the sys

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:07:46PM -0400, David Gaudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > and if ththeresroblem with MTMTApgrade ?:) > > True, now and then I have to count the subject lines to make sure all > systems are accounted for. But it's still better than logging in to all the > systems every

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do it; there are lots of ways it can break. I have heard this m

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread David Gaudine
> and if ththeresroblem with MTMTApgrade ?:) True, now and then I have to count the subject lines to make sure all systems are accounted for. But it's still better than logging in to all the systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2 years, and haven't had a lot of tro

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Ping Wing
--- David GaGaudinedadavidmemclaboconcordiaa> wrote: > > I know that this is not recommended. But I often > set up DeDebianachines > > for "friends" who have virtually no clue > whatsoever and no intentions > > of changing this. The machines are obviously not > very important but I > > want to prov

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread David Gaudine
> I know that this is not recommended. But I often set up Debian machines > for "friends" who have virtually no clue whatsoever and no intentions > of changing this. The machines are obviously not very important but I > want to provide at least a minimal level of security because if I do not > it w

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Ping Wing
> > In my opinion semi-automaticaly updates sound scary > itself... > > - Martin I agree, and I never use it. But still, even on manual updates , it can cause problem. cheers, http://www.axeltabs.com/ __ axel __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Ya

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:59:28PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote: > > Upgrades require interaction from time to time, such > > as conffile merges. > > Even with packages that use debconf, the defaults > > you get with the > > noninteractive frontend aren't always what you want. > > well but lets assume i

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Ping Wing
> Upgrades require interaction from time to time, such > as conffile merges. > Even with packages that use debconf, the defaults > you get with the > noninteractive frontend aren't always what you want. well but lets assume i have little router ticking somewhere. only sshd listening. If I configu

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Ping Wing
> Every Debian init.d script that starts a daemon says > something like > "Starting web server: apache." > some processes take long time to finish. slurpd hangs sometime mystically or takes long to finish. I think it could cause probelms if I start it again before its done. some scripts are ok

RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kahle
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:42 AM Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: >>> I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do >>> it; there are lots of ways it can break. >> >>

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael Kahle: > Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: > > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do > > it; there are lots of ways it can break. > > I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this a > problem? Please e

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: > Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: > > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do > > it; there are lots of ways it can break. > > I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate?

RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kahle
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do > it; there are lots of ways it can break. I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here. Michael --

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:14:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release > > codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont > > You can safely use the codenames. Ok, tha

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Martin Fluch
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote: > frankly, the fact that debian puts 'stable' in source.list > automatically is littlebit scaring. For example when sarge is new > stable one day, and im doing another (semi-)automatic apt-get upgrade, > theres good chance that this messe

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
ugh. > > > > We aren't even into freeze yet. > > > > When that happens, then you should maybe worry about that. > > Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release > codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.li

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing > > for the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this > > cause trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new > > distribu

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-18 Thread Ping Wing
> Sarge *SUDDENLY* becoming Stable. Don't make me > laugh. > > We aren't even into freeze yet. > > When that happens, then you should maybe worry about > that. it doesnt matter when it happen. I must read news every day, be prepared to change all my sources.list when it happens? thing is that

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-18 Thread Matthias Czapla
about that. Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont know but I could imagine that the distribution specifier is just being used to build up a pathname on the http/ftp server.

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:54, Matthias Czapla wrote: > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing for > the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this cause > trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new distribution when > testing suddenly becomes stabl

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-18 Thread Ping Wing
> Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of > stable and testing for > the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list > or can this cause > trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new > distribution when > testing suddenly becomes stable. yes you can and imho it makse very much s

woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-18 Thread Matthias Czapla
Hi! Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing for the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this cause trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new distribution when testing suddenly becomes stable. Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Need secure kernel for stable/testing machine.

2004-04-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm running stable/testing (mostly testing), but would like to run a nice, secure kernel! The latest kernel security advisory shows the following security matrix: The following security matrix explains which kernel versions for which architecture are already fixed. Kernel images i

Re: sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing?

2004-02-27 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres Febrer 27 2004 21:11, en Bill Moseley va escriure: > Do I need testing and stable entries in my sources.list if running > unstable? You don't (AFAIK); I've got only sid's in my sources.list... - -- Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain

Re: sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing?

2004-02-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/02/04 12:11), Bill Moseley wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:11:02 -0800 > Subject: sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing? > > Do I need testing and stable entries in my sources.list if runn

sources.list: Running Sid. Need stable/testing?

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Moseley
Do I need testing and stable entries in my sources.list if running unstable? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone compile/use transcode in stable/testing

2004-02-04 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: All, My search on package with the name transcode returned nothing. Thus I am assuming that it is not part of standard debian distros. Given that, any one compiled/installed/used the transcode package for creating/modifying/transcoding DVD content? The source has

Re: Anyone compile/use transcode in stable/testing

2004-02-03 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > My search on package with the name transcode returned nothing. Thus I am assuming > that it is not > part of standard debian distros. Given that, any one compiled/installed/used the > transcode package > for creating/modifying

Anyone compile/use transcode in stable/testing

2004-02-03 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, My search on package with the name transcode returned nothing. Thus I am assuming that it is not part of standard debian distros. Given that, any one compiled/installed/used the transcode package for creating/modifying/transcoding DVD content? The source has a single step .deb creation c

uptodate version of evolution for Debian stable/testing

2003-12-19 Thread MH - Entwicklung
Hello out there, does anybody know if there is an uptodate version of evolution available for Debian stable/testing? Regards Manfred -- manfred heubach edv und neue medien Hindenburgstr. 47 D-73728 Esslingen Tel. +49 711 9315824 Fax +49 711 9315825 www.heubach-edv.de

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Nelson
sin. > > But how? > I'm a little shy of installing tarballs -- I'm afraid this would give me > trouble when eventually I want to install the .deb package. > > Leaves me with getting it from testing; I regularly see posts on this > list where people claim to have a mix

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Debian packaging system will stay away. > Leaves me with getting it from testing; I regularly see posts on this > list where people claim to have a mixed setup from stable / testing / > unstable, but I found no clue on how I could do this myself. > > Could someone please provide m

how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread Christian Schnobrich
his would give me trouble when eventually I want to install the .deb package. Leaves me with getting it from testing; I regularly see posts on this list where people claim to have a mixed setup from stable / testing / unstable, but I found no clue on how I could do this myself. Could someone ple

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-20 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > Package pinning is driving my crazy. Every now and then I just have to > have something that is only available in testing or unstable. My > favorite option is to download the source, compile it myself and > install in /usr/local but eve

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
t -b source # dpkg -i *.deb > I wish pinning didn't exist. It is a good tool to pull-in unstable into testing but ... I have to agree on your feeling to some extent. Once you install any C programs, they pull in latest libc... > > I want to install stable, testing and unstable u

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
easier to find a backport (see http://www.apt-get.org/, for instance) or produce one yourself. I wish pinning didn't exist. > I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate > directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under > /stable, testing packs go

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Polite
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:28:57AM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > ... > > I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate > > directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under > > /stable, testing packs goes under /testing and so on. > ... > w

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-12 Thread Albert Dengg
... > I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate > directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under > /stable, testing packs goes under /testing and so on. ... well, here is a guide to set up debian in a chroot enviroment http://www.debian.org/do

installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-12 Thread Alex Polite
has a gazillion dependencies. So I do apt-get -t unstable Almost without exemption this will lead to hairy dependency problems. Here's what I'd like to do instead. I want to install stable, testing and unstable under separate directories. All stable packs, configuration files etc goes under /

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-22 Thread sdownes
Sorted - the problem was an incorrect ServerName declaration in the Client.conf file Many thanks for your help Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread Donald Spoon
sdownes wrote: - SNIP- < I've got the deb stable packages installed with default settings at present but had the same problem with the testing version & played about with a lot of settings in that before purging it & starting again. I do have cupsys cupsys-client & cupsys-bsd installed but no

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread sdownes
Original Message sdownes wrote: >> Cannot get anything to print direct to lp or lpr. I can get it to >>print. .to >> lp -d lp@host no problem. >> >> I appear to have the default printer set to lp & am working (initially) >> from that host. I can move the default to another pr

Re: CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread Donald Spoon
sdownes wrote: Cannot get anything to print direct to lp or lpr. I can get it to print to lp -d lp@host no problem. I appear to have the default printer set to lp & am working (initially) from that host. I can move the default to another printer but this makes no difference. As some of my sof

CUPS Stable & Testing

2003-02-21 Thread sdownes
Cannot get anything to print direct to lp or lpr. I can get it to print to lp -d lp@host no problem. I appear to have the default printer set to lp & am working (initially) from that host. I can move the default to another printer but this makes no difference. As some of my software will only

Re: A mixed stable/testing system

2002-11-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: > If anyone know the solution, could he/she gives me his "/etc/apt/sources.list" > and his "/etc/apt/apt.conf" so that I can see how to do it. I think you also need an apt-preferences file. Read the man page or search the archive sin

A mixed stable/testing system

2002-11-27 Thread Olivier Esser
Hello, Does anyone have succeed to use the APT::Default-Release option in /etc/apt/apt.conf? I would like to keep a mixed system stable/testing. The documentation tell to add an entry to both stable and testing in /etc/sources.list and to add APT::Default-Release "stable"; i

Re: Problems running a mixed stable/testing system

2002-10-12 Thread Shawn Willden
On Friday 11 October 2002 08:39 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:05:56PM -0600, Shawn Willden wrote: > > Apt::Default-Release "woody"; > > I don't find this as a valid configuration directive in > /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz. I'ts mentioned in the apt-get

Re: stable->testing wants to remove loads of packages ...

2001-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:05:16PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > Just wondering if anyone knows why the following's happening: > > > # apt-get -f dist-upgrade > The following packages will be REMOVED: > console-tools gdm gnome-control-center gnome-gturing g

stable->testing wants to remove loads of packages ...

2001-12-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all. Just wondering if anyone knows why the following's happening: # apt-get -f dist-upgrade The following packages will be REMOVED: console-tools gdm gnome-control-center gnome-gturing groff gs gv libguile6 locales man-db task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-n

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:18:37AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of > 'potato' with 'testing'. Be aware of the difference here ... Using 'potato' means you're tracking a release codename - exactly Debian 2.2 (or Debian 2.2r). Using

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:15:26PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add > lines for testing. For som

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was > change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and > away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in > sources.list, I sy no. I agree. I seem to be doing okay here by just replacing all occurances of 'potato' with 'testing'. Robert

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in sources.list, I sy no. --- Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > > /etc/apt/so

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread Bob Koss
> > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > When using testing, I always left the deb lines for stable in the > sources.list file. That is to say that I think rather than replacing > your stable lines with testing, you should leave them there and add

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Koss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010919 16:07]: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > > This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from > cvs. > > Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, > w

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread David Z Maze
Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BK> I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my BK> /etc/apt/sources.list file. BK> BK> I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get BK> upgrade', I get the following error: BK> BK> 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove a

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Mike Alborn
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: *snip* > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-get upgrade', I > get the following error: > > 45 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed,

Re: stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:55:53PM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my > future. > [snip] > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > I did an 'apt-get update'. But when I attempt to do an 'apt-

stable -> testing

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Koss
I have a Debian stable system, but I'm thinking unstable might be in my future. This morning I thought I'd perform the simple task of compiling pan from cvs. Trying to do the autoconf / make thing led me to install several packages, which required even more packages. I through up my hands when I

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) > > --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody > > boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) > > > > I don't

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody > boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) > > I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new > glibc

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:40:48AM -0700, tluxt wrote: > Err, > > I think I would rather have titled that message: > "How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system." > rather than "How to upgrade ...", > because I the procedure I gave there (and want) > is about doing a fresh install

Re: How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Err, I think I would rather have titled that message: "How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system." rather than "How to upgrade ...", because I the procedure I gave there (and want) is about doing a fresh install. Of course, the answer is relevant to doing an upgrade of an existi

How to upgrade stable -> testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
its own. And don't put _anything_ else in.) 2. Change /etc/sources.list: stable -> testing . 3. apt-get update 4. - Now here's what I'm not sure _exactly_ what should come next. Do we need to ftp down some debs first? (And if so, put them where? /var/cache/apt/archives

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Did you do the "update list of available packages" step before trying to proceed with select or install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith O'Connell) writes: > Hi, > > I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought > it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stab

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Dmitry Astapov
KO> "stable" with "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through KO> the changes and found a couple of problems KO> 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some dependency KO> issues. It tells me that; KO> lwrsed recommends libnss-lwres libnss-lwres does not appear to be

stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stable" with "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through the changes and found a couple of problems 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates s

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Peterson
Ilya Martynov wrote: > > RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and > RP> exclusions, let me know. > > Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried > to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with > yours. You can view my mirr

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:56:42PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: > > >> I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are > >> they right? > >> > >> --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ > > CW> pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for > CW> testing/unsta

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
>> I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are >> they right? >> >> --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ CW> pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for CW> testing/unstable now and I imagine stable in the future, so you'll have CW> to be more caref

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and >RP> exclusions, let me know. > >Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried >to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with >yours. > >I want

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
RP> If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and RP> exclusions, let me know. Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with yours. I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how > much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the > following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? > Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian, deb

debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? Diskspace required for each of these Debian dis

SOLVED!: Upgrade Problems (Stable->Testing)

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato to Woody: * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [250201 21:56]: I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The only problem I re

Upgrade Problems (Stable->Testing)

2001-02-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Good evening everyone, This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another. I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in top order with security updates it has been the greatest help. The upgrade from "stable" to "testing" has not been fun

Dual boot stable & testing on 1 hard disk?

2001-02-07 Thread Ross Smith
I'd like to set up the following on hda: (potato) /boot (hda1, 5M) / (hda6, 4G) (woody) /boot (hda5, 5M) / (hda7, 4G) (shared) /home (hda8, 20G) (swap)(hda9, 256M) and dual-boot between them. Is this possible? If so, how? Is this the smartest way to accomplish the objective of