Re: An AMD graphics bug is coming to unstable/testing repo

2023-01-15 Thread Martin Petersen
Hi David, hi All :) thank You very much for this informative mail, David. It is very kind of You to think about all AMD Debian users. Much appreciated ! I don't have to add much. The issue at Freedesktop.org is: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2171 There is a fix but everybod

An AMD graphics bug is coming to unstable/testing repo

2023-01-15 Thread David
Hi list readers A FYI: I am far from expert in these things but I noticed that a kernel with a known bug affecting AMD graphics is about to enter the unstable distribution [1], and possibly the testing distribution as well. [1]:""" I would like to upload linux version 6.1.6-1 to unstable. [...] N

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread Sven Hartge
John Hasler wrote: > Sven writes: >> It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of >> packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable" >> and has to be used in conjunction with it. > It is also of note that Unstable is unstable in that it is constantly

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread John Hasler
Sven writes: > It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of > packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable" > and has to be used in conjunction with it. It is also of note that Unstable is unstable in that it is constantly changing, not that it is fu

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > There is an experimental "distribution" that is for trying all kinds of > new and weird things. It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable" and has to be used in conjunction wit

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here > (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do > any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me > look uninformed (or worse), and

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread steef
Hi there, youre are far from an idiot. All this stuff like stable etc/ etc. rests on conventions. You wrote you never insxtalled something other than stable. So: do not worry why should you worry about this shit. In a philosophical way your point of view if you have any developed now on this t

Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
o Unstable (concentrating on things that survived some initial > testing and now maybe being released to a select group for some real > pounding en route to Stable. Trivia: Long ago Debian only had stable and unstable, testing was introduced later. Basically packages that are meant for the ne

Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

2020-04-13 Thread rhkramer
Aside: for my own self respect, I want to make some sort of disclaimer here (with maybe several points): I'm sure that sometimes I post things that do any of (1) make other people cringe (for one reason or another), (2) make me look uninformed (or worse), and (3) other causes for embarrassment

Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.

2010-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 21 dec 10, 10:24:47, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:27:37AM +, r...@upp.pt wrote: > > I'm searhcing for the safe way to upgrade my current debian to > > testing/unstable in order to install the newset verion of OpenAFS > > (1.4.12.1). I don't want to fully upgrad

Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.

2010-12-21 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote: > That's exactly what I need. Thank you! Good. But please keep the thread in the list, don't mail me privately without a need. ;) -- Regards, Alexander Batischev 1024D/69093C81 F870 A381 B5F5 D2A1 1B35 4D63 A1A7 1C77 6909 3C8

Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.

2010-12-21 Thread Alexander Batischev
- Forwarded message from r...@upp.pt - Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:33:53 + From: r...@upp.pt To: Alexander Batischev Subject: Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing. On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:24:47 +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:27:37AM +

Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.

2010-12-21 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:27:37AM +, r...@upp.pt wrote: > I'm searhcing for the safe way to upgrade my current debian to > testing/unstable in order to install the newset verion of OpenAFS > (1.4.12.1). I don't want to fully upgrade my system -- only the the > necessary dependencies should be

Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.

2010-12-21 Thread rizo
I'm searhcing for the safe way to upgrade my current debian to testing/unstable in order to install the newset verion of OpenAFS (1.4.12.1). I don't want to fully upgrade my system -- only the the necessary dependencies should be used from testing/unstable repositories. Hw can I do that? -- Rizo

Re: "Stable" vs "Unstable" & "Testing"

2010-06-09 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Wed, 6/9/10, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >From what I have seen so far, I would recommend ubuntu 9.10 for your netbook, >followed by debian testing or unstable. ++= Thanks so much for your input. I've got madwifi working Debian on my Acer Aspire One.

Re: "Stable" vs "Unstable" & "Testing"

2010-06-08 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2010-06-09 01:55, ABSDoug skrev: This was the 1st time I had heard of "stab le"& "unstable", I only knew there was "testing", which I wanted to avoid. Sounded very reasonable, with a name like "stable"& finding out Debian is the SOURCE for other distros, I'm thinking stable is what you'd use if

Re: "Stable" vs "Unstable" & "Testing"

2010-06-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 04:55:03PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > Thanks a BUNCH for all the responds! If I'm repeating myself, forgive, > I'm not sure what you've read so far (had some posting issues, now > resolved). I'd like to explain my desire to use Debian stable so as to > get some education here,

"Stable" vs "Unstable" & "Testing"

2010-06-08 Thread ABSDoug
<<< I originally wrote: I do know I want to stick with "stable" Debian >>> <<< Someone else wrote: I my opinion there is no need to do so. Squeeze is close to freeze, soon it will became stable. You better run it. Personally I run it on my EeePC and have (almost) no problems. Advantage of runnin

Re: public key in apt get unstable/testing not valid

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joey Hess (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Bryan Frechette wrote: >> Hi i'm running debian testing and when i do apt-get update, i get a >> public key fail when i update my database to do an upgrade of my >> debian server and i the public key fails what do i do then > > apt-get --allow-unauth

Re: public key in apt get unstable/testing not valid

2006-01-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bryan Frechette (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi i'm running debian testing and when i do apt-get update, i get a > public key fail when i update my database to do an upgrade of my > debian server and i the public key fails what do i do then You need to import the archive key for 2006 (ma

Re: public key in apt get unstable/testing not valid

2006-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Bryan Frechette wrote: > Hi i'm running debian testing and when i do apt-get update, i get a public > key fail when i update my database to do an upgrade of my debian server > and i the public key fails what do i do then apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install debian-archive-keyring -- see shy j

public key in apt get unstable/testing not valid

2006-01-19 Thread Bryan Frechette
Hi i'm running debian testing and when i do apt-get update, i get a public key fail when i update my database to do an upgrade of my debian server and i the public key fails what do i do then Thanks very much Bryan Frechette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Seeking for users of tetex from unstable/testing/bunk-2

2004-06-28 Thread Hilmar Preusse
cription how you keep your system up to date (e.g. "unstable/testing all the time", "first bunk-1, after that bunk-2" etc.). People, who don't have that file on their system (or only /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp, note that "base" in the path),

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:22:18AM +0200, Matthijs wrote: > ... > I think I'm as much a newbie as you are and recognize you're problem > with the package management. I'm used to a windows environment. You > want a new application? Go to the website, download the setup.exe and > execute - you're don

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:22:18AM +0200, Matthijs wrote: > I think I'm as much a newbie as you are and recognize you're problem > with the package management. I'm used to a windows environment. You > want a new application? Go to the website, download the setup.exe and > execute - you're done. Us

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Matthijs
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:50:12 +0200, Matt Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You rule! Finally! Man, I'm not sure what to think of Debian yet. I'm > having a hard time picking up the package management system for some reason. You're welcome! I think I'm as much a newbie as you are and recogni

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Krause
You rule! Finally! Man, I'm not sure what to think of Debian yet. I'm having a hard time picking up the package management system for some reason. Also, testing distro doesn't seem to have the libc-client2002edebian package, but an install of the unstable package worked fine. While, I am at

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Krause
Yep, the same thing is happening with POP3 as well. Thanks a bunch, I will give this a try. Matthijs wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:10:09 +0200, Matt Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, I have having problems getting unstable and testing versions of uw-impad Debian packages working. The vers

Re: Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Matthijs
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:10:09 +0200, Matt Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I have having problems getting unstable and testing versions of > uw-impad Debian packages working. The version numbers are > 7:2002edebian1-3 and 7:2002ddebian1-4 respectivly. With these two > packages installed

Stable, Unstable, Testing

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Krause
So I have been struggling/messing with uw-imapd and uw-imapd-ssl for a couple of weeks and am having some problems. I have also at the same time been learning Debian (RedHat man most of my life), so I am learning all about dselect, apt-get, and dpkg. So, I have having problems getting unstable

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-12, Goran Christiansson penned: > Dear All, > > I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just > like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than > "LI" of "LILO". > > After googleing a bit I found that this was a "well known" problem, > and that

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Goran Christiansson wrote: > Dear All, > > I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it > says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than "LI" of > "LILO". > > After googleing a bit I found that this was a "well known" problem, and > that> it can be solve

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Goran Christiansson wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than "LI" of "LILO". After googleing a bit I found that this was a "well known" problem, and that it can be solved using a boot d

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Goran Christiansson
Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than "LI" of "LILO". After googleing a bit I found that this was a "well known" problem, and that it can be solved using a boot disk. Could someone explai

Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Simon Tod
--- Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone on this list (I think David Z Maze) > commented that If I was brave > enough to run a Linux kernel so young (2.6.0) then > I'm probably brave enough > to run unstable too. > > Well, I've given it a thought and decided to migrate > two of

switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Someone on this list (I think David Z Maze) commented that If I was brave enough to run a Linux kernel so young (2.6.0) then I'm probably brave enough to run unstable too. Well, I've given it a thought and decided to migrate two of my three debian "woody" installations to unstable and testing r

X instability in mixed stable/unstable/testing system

2003-06-09 Thread Alex Polite
I've been having problems with X instability for a long time. I'll do something in a app (usually mozilla, firebird or galeon) and X will freeze, not responding to keyboard commands or mouse movement. I can still ssh into the machine, run top and find out that X is consuming 99% of my CPU cycles.

Re: gcc 3.3 in unstable/testing

2003-06-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:09:43AM +0100, James Stone wrote: > Just a quick question: why is the default gcc 3.3 in unstable/testing > when the only one that seems to work for compiling stuff (at least on > my system) is gcc 3.2.3? Works fine for me, although we're having to fix u

gcc 3.3 in unstable/testing

2003-06-04 Thread James Stone
Just a quick question: why is the default gcc 3.3 in unstable/testing when the only one that seems to work for compiling stuff (at least on my system) is gcc 3.2.3? James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling kernel under unstable/testing (3.0)

2001-12-14 Thread Dragos
On Friday 14 December 2001 05:02 am, Thomas Richter wrote: > Hi, > > after upgrading an unstable release this week and building a 2.4.16 kernel > the following error occured: > > error: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section > .data.exit > > later I messed up the machine, so her

compiling kernel under unstable/testing (3.0)

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Richter
Hi, after upgrading an unstable release this week and building a 2.4.16 kernel the following error occured: error: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .data.exit later I messed up the machine, so here are the things I've written down or can remember: net.o and char.o whe

Re: Unstable -> Testing

2001-09-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
rities in /etc/apt/preferences to just upgrade a few pacakges while still tracking testing for the rest of your system. see posts in the archives from der.hans for help on that. > Has anyone had experience with what kinds of issues I might run into > moving from unstable->testing? From w

Unstable -> Testing

2001-09-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
A while ago I had to set myself up a little low-priority router. Now, being the irresponsible person I am, I just had to install unstable to get a few toys testing was missing at the time. :) Has anyone had experience with what kinds of issues I might run into moving from unstable->testing? F

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:28:55AM -0500, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:23:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:16:24PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've found unstable to be of better use than test

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:38:07PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > So you're saying that things that go into the security updates site > don't also appear in unstable? And this isn't just because the security > fixes are against stable packages that are already superseded in > unstable? As I underst

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:23:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:16:24PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've found unstable to be of better use than testing. The reason is > > that even bugfixes need at least 10 days to go into testing, wherea

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-30 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:16:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:38:07PM -0700, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | > > > I've found unstable to be of better use than testing. The reason is | > > > that even bugfixes need at leas

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:38:07PM -0700, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I've found unstable to be of better use than testing. The reason is > > > that even bugfixes need at least 10 days to go into testing, whereas in > > > unstable they could be inclu

Re: Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-30 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've found unstable to be of better use than testing. The reason is > > that even bugfixes need at least 10 days to go into testing, whereas in > > unstable they could be included the next day. > > ...but not security updates, IIRC. These should be available > immed

Unstable/Testing bugfix issues (was Re: RedHat vs Debian?)

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:16:24PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ross Burton wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 17:09, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > > hmm, Ok, give me a list of stability: > > > > > > potato most stable > > > sid (unstable) next most stable > >

unstable --> testing

2001-06-11 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello list, I want to go back from unstable to testing in the hope for fewer broken dependencies and so on, now: in order to install a certain gnome package (libgnome-dev, which I need to compile Pan (I want to compile recent versions, I am following their user-list)) I stumbled upon some de

Re: Wisdom of mixing stable + unstable/testing?

2001-03-29 Thread CaT
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:33:15AM +1000, Charles Thornhill-Cole wrote: > There are a couple of packages from unstable and testing that I would > like to use on a production server running stable. Should I just > compile them and play it safe? apt-get -b source has been my friend for a while now.

RE: Wisdom of mixing stable + unstable/testing?

2001-03-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 30-Mar-2001 Charles Thornhill-Cole wrote: > Hi, > > If one were to install the libc6 package from unstable on top of a stable > install, would it break things? how badly? > > There are a couple of packages from unstable and testing that I would like to > use on a production server running sta

Wisdom of mixing stable + unstable/testing?

2001-03-29 Thread Charles Thornhill-Cole
Hi,   If one were to install the libc6 package from unstable on top of a stable install, would it break things? how badly?   There are a couple of packages from unstable and testing that I would like to use on a production server running stable. Should I just compile them and play it safe?