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> Subject: Re: upgrading to etch
>
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
> > Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for replacing
> > configuration files during
> an upgr
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:54:25PM -0400, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for replacing
> configuration files during an upgrade? Any one
> know how to automate the answers. Here is an example
These prompts are issued b
Quoting Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Does anyone know what function/package does the prompting for
replacing configuration files during an upgrade? Any one
know how to automate the answers. Here is an example
Configuration file `/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples'
==> Dele
Hello Tony,
I think you're looking for
# dpkg-reconfigure debconf
This will let you set the 'level' for the questions that will be asked
(or no questions at all) at the time you're upgrading.
Regards.
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michael bailey wrote:
I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel)
on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III
processor. The board appears to be failing now with
frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M)
and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired.
However, the new
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:24:31AM -0800, michael bailey wrote:
> I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel)
> on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III
> processor. The board appears to be failing now with
> frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M)
> and cpu (AMD
michael bailey wrote:
I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel)
on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III
processor. The board appears to be failing now with
frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M)
and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired.
However, the new
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:56:17 -0700
Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on how to avoid this kind of thing in
> the
> future with some other package upgrade? I was using synaptic, added testing
> to the repository after installing sarge, and then chose
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:11, valdyn wrote:
> you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could
> grab a 2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one. Example(s) for
> pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'.
Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on ho
you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could grab a
2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one.
Example(s) for pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'.
cheers,
flo
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:58:48AM -0400, Brian Pack wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 09:51 am, nullman wrote:
> > i AM sure, that ..
> >
> > 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> > 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
> >
> > -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in t
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:33:14PM +0200, nullman wrote:
> isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
>
Hi nullman,
testing (etch) is prone to groups of packages being removed for long
periods of time until all the dependencies are
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:58 -0400, Brian Pack wrote:
[...]
> Then there is the changeover from XFree86 to X.org, which may break *lots* of
> stuff. :)
>
> Any word on the timetable for this switch?
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml
That is the X Strike Force news... keep an e
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Jan Leewe Behrendt:
>> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
>
> If you don't know how to do that, you better refrain from upgrading.
> Etch will not be as stable as sarge has been the last couple of months.
>
> I really do not want to offend you, but the nu
nullman:
>
> isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
No, it will not. Not in the Debian sense of 'stable' (no new features or
packages) and because of that almost inevitably unstable in the usual
sense (uninstallable packages,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:51:50PM +0200, nullman wrote:
> i AM sure, that ..
>
> 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
>
> -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
>
> When testing (etch) becom
On Friday 10 June 2005 09:51 am, nullman wrote:
> i AM sure, that ..
>
> 1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
> 2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
>
> -> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
>
> When testing (etch) becomes more busy
i AM sure, that ..
1. etch is the currently testing-Branch
2. Testing was forked when sarge became stable (not so long ago ;-)
-> so Etch = Sarge + what changed in testing since sarge became stable
When testing (etch) becomes more busy (new packages -
gnome-transition, ...) it MAY be unstable fo
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:33, nullman wrote:
> isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
> -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
I'm not sure. Etch is likely to get the latest version of KDE, Gnome,
Perl, python... soon which will make it very unstable for a while.
Nico
isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ?
-> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months !
Jan Leewe Behrendt:
>
> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
If you don't know how to do that, you better refrain from upgrading.
Etch will not be as stable as sarge has been the last couple of months.
I really do not want to offend you, but the number of mails that have
hit the m
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Jan Leewe Behrendt wrote:
> could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch?
See 'man apt_preferences'.
put:
APT::Default-Release "etch";
in the file
/etc/apt/apt.conf
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