On 02/01/07, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/31/06, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:21:19PM +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote: > > Hello list, I got me a VPS from gplhost.com. > > > > First thing I did was installing Debian sarge on it, second thing I > > did was playing smarty pants and adding _everything_ from > > backports.org. > > Why not dist-upgrade to Etch? That process seems to have slightly less > points of failure, as it is atually being debugged by several people. > Yes, that's exactly what I ended up doing. That is - after I dumped fresh image of sarge on the machine.
Sorry to hear that, I wanted to try to play with your borked platform. Though installing Etch is the Right Thing(TM) IMHO.
> Where can I get more information about the various files under > > /var/lib/dpkg ? > > Turns out that even in sarge apt has "sources.list.d" why doesn't > > anyone uses it then? > > Can I write custom methods (under /usr/lib/apt/methods) ? Where is protocol > > ?? > > Any more interesting places to look when hacking dpkg/debconf/apt/aptitude ? > > Hmmm, could someone please provide some tips for the above ?
Possible start points: the dpkg package source, pointers from /usr/share/doc/dpkg wiki.debian.org/ vihang007.googlepages.com/search.html www.debianhelp.org www.debian-administration.org/ --Amos
