Re: Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

2024-07-03 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Hey, Thank you for your reply Sven, and sorry for the belated response. Here is my setup now: sources.list ``` # stable deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-fr

Re: Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-04-07 04:48 +0300, Cyprus Socialite wrote: > I am trying to configure Apt to follow a "stable where we can, unstable > where we must" logic. > > On the "Stable+Backports - Testing - Unstable - Experimental" stencil, I > would like to > > - install left-to-right (the stablest version availa

Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

2024-04-06 Thread Cyprus Socialite
Hi all, I am trying to configure Apt to follow a "stable where we can, unstable where we must" logic. On the "Stable+Backports - Testing - Unstable - Experimental" stencil, I would like to - install left-to-right (the stablest version available), - upgrade right-to-left (the stablest newer ver

Re: Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-07 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow- > unauthenticated > > above command line with APT configuration is supposed to keep the old > configuration files in place (without prompting) as per [1] but it is > prompting me about locally modified /etc/samba/smb.conf

Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

2022-02-06 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security fixes on using command line as per below: $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow- unauthenticated above command line

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:12:49 +0200 schreef P Perazim : Migrating from fedora to debian. I need to have apt use the latest version of cups (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on the web. I don't really understand the apt logic at this point so I don't know what to do so I am asking. Ru

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-24, B wrote: > >> I need to have apt use the latest version of cups >> (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on >> the web. > > You can't; if you're in stable (wheezy), you'll only > get the stable version. > Maybe if we knew why he needed the latest version of cups, we coul

Re: apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:12:49 +0300 "P Perazim" wrote: > Migrating from fedora to debian. Excellent. > I need to have apt use the latest version of cups > (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on > the web. You can't; if you're in stable (wheezy), you'll only get the stable version. > I

apt configuration question from new user

2014-06-24 Thread P Perazim
Migrating from fedora to debian. I need to have apt use the latest version of cups (1.7.3) that I can see in the pool directory on the web. I don't really understand the apt logic at this point so I don't know what to do so I am asking. Running 7.5.0 and have checked the software sources and ther

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2009 23:22:08 Kevin Ross wrote: > > On my Lenny system apt-config dumps far, far more than is in > > all the files > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ put together, and there is no > > apt.conf file; yet > > apt-config must be reading from somewhere. In my case too I have an > > untouch

RE: APT configuration file

2009-07-26 Thread Kevin Ross
> On my Lenny system apt-config dumps far, far more than is in > all the files > in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ put together, and there is no > apt.conf file; yet > apt-config must be reading from somewhere. In my case too I have an > untouched Apt on a fresh install, tho' it actually is a fresh >

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 July 2009 13:30:08 Rustam wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 06:37 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > > > > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A previous poster stated to add this line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" > file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I would love to do that but I am > unable as yet to find a file named /etc/apt/apt.conf. In the Unix world, there is usually no difference between an empty configuration file and a configu

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <864da6a10907221729y80d02d7sc66498536a7d4...@mail.gmail.com>, Kc9EYE wrote: >So, where exactly is apt-config dump >reading these configuration options from? Both /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* plus maybe some defaults somewhere under /usr/share. man 5 apt.conf man 8 apt-config m

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Jul 2009 at 06:37:24 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > What is the name of the file that > apt-config reads when there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf file? There is no extra config file on the system. apt-config displays initialisation values set in the source file init.cc.

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Kc9EYE wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the configuration parameters used by apt. Thanks for the quick replies. Yes I will co

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Rustam
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 06:37 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the > > configuration parameters used by a

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-23 Thread Kc9EYE
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the > configuration parameters used by apt. Thanks for the quick replies. Yes I will copy the apt.

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Kc9EYE writes: >Following the thread on apt defaulting to install recommends, I would >like to turn this option off. A previous poster stated to add this >line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I >would love to do that but I am unable as yet to find a file named >/et

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
7;t been able to find out where those options are being read from. In that list of options I have one stating "Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf", yet there is no apt.conf in /etc/apt. I have asked google repeatedly for any information pertaining to apt configuration, apt.conf, apt howto. Yet

APT configuration file

2009-07-22 Thread Kc9EYE
e to find out where those options are being read from. In that list of options I have one stating "Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf", yet there is no apt.conf in /etc/apt. I have asked google repeatedly for any information pertaining to apt configuration, apt.conf, apt howto. Yet can find nothing

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:13:22PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Please, > I said : I used full CD1 lenny 5.02. > Ok, thanks, > Pratically I want to stop all processes using the access to internet like > for example: > rdate which tries to adjust the time from remote servers >

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
9 at 5:09 PM, abdelkader belahcene > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I always have in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- >> configuration takes a long time, giving the nice message : please wait >> >> In fact the installator tries to get packages from internet (

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Neal Hogan
((bela, I suspect you meant to reply on this thread. So, I cp'd it below)) On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, abdelkader > belahcene wrote: >> Hi, >> I always have  in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configurati

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I always have  in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configuration > takes a long time,  giving the nice  message : please wait > In fact the installator tries to get packages from internet ( > when I

apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I always have in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configuration takes a long time, giving the nice message : please wait In fact the installator tries to get packages from internet ( when I switch CTRL+ALT+F2, I find the process http ), in the /target/etc/apt/sources.lst

APT configuration Acquire:Queue-Mode

2007-04-11 Thread Björn Keil
Hello, could anyone tell me what the configuration option APT::Acquire::Queue-Mode does actually do? The manpage isn't quite clear on that: Queue-Mode Queuing mode; Queue-Mode can be one of host or access which determines how APT parallelizes outgoing connections. host means tha

cron-apt configuration

2007-03-20 Thread Bruno . Voigt
Hi all, I have several debian/unstable machines with cron-apt installed without manual changing it's config (as I remember). All machines but one are just updating the package lists. The special one is also downloading all upgradeable packages, so by the time I enter "aptitude dist-upgrade" all

Debian install on VirtualPC stuck at "Apt configuration"

2006-04-04 Thread Joseph J. Strout
ne; during the process, I saw a message about configuring DHCP, and it seemed to do that successfully as far as I could tell. But something must be wrong, because after the reboot, I'm now stuck at the "Apt configuration" dialog. It asks me to choose the method (I've tried bot

Re: apt configuration

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
> > I'm maintaining a parc of 20 stations. All of them are sarge. But time > > to time, I need to install an other package (eg: from sid, from > > postgresql..). > > > > So I was wondering how do you do, guys, to achieve such things. > > examples: > ~$ wajig update > ~$ wajig install mysql > ~$ w

Re: apt configuration

2005-09-06 Thread James Vahn
Cedric BRINER wrote: > I'm maintaining a parc of 20 stations. All of them are sarge. But time > to time, I need to install an other package (eg: from sid, from > postgresql..). > > So I was wondering how do you do, guys, to achieve such things. examples: ~$ wajig update ~$ wajig install mysql ~$

apt configuration

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
hello, I'm maintaining a parc of 20 stations. All of them are sarge. But time to time, I need to install an other package (eg: from sid, from postgresql..). So I was wondering how do you do, guys, to achieve such things. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t