Re: efficient use of http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?

2021-11-15 Thread Ken Cunningham
, it will just keep on going until it runs out of binaries to download. I usually Control-C it after one or two binaries have been downloaded. That is more efficient than what I have been doing so far at least. Another useful tool for managing the snapshot.debian.org archives appears to be

efficient use of http://snapshot.debian.org/ ?

2021-11-13 Thread Ken Cunningham
When trying to install packages for both the 32bit and 64bit powerpc version of debian sid, it is pretty common to find a situation where the package can't be installed due to a missing supporting library. The latest examples I came across were installing vlc, ffmpeg, firefox, and thunderbird, all

Re: efficient

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Luther
wrote: > >What's "interesting for Sven" isn't really a consideration, what's > >reasonable and efficient is. Once this has been tried for some time, > >I'll be happy to reconsider whether it's effective; if it's going to be > >di

efficient

2006-05-11 Thread Mike
What's "interesting for Sven" isn't really a consideration, what's reasonable and efficient is. Once this has been tried for some time, I'll be happy to reconsider whether it's effective; if it's going to be dismissed out of hand, though, that indicates a l