On Monday 23 May 2011 15:02:40 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> please feel free to ignore
> any suggestions from my side regarding administering your computer, if
> you don't find them useful. I just happen to enjoy throwing ideas
> around, although sometimes I tend to exagerate ;)
I knew someone once who
On 05/23/2011 05:18 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
forgot about it. May I suggest installing etckeeper? In it's default
configuration it will automatically keep a track of all changes in /etc,
which you can review very easily if you wish with (as root):
# cd /etc
# git log -u
If you make any changes
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:01:47, Lisi wrote:
>
> I have in fact gone on niggling at this. And the instructions page clearly
> says to add those exact lines. I agree with you now. I must have just
> copied and pasted them without registering them.
>
> I clearly do need to add etckeeper as you sugg
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:51:21 Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
[snip]
> > # git commit -a -m ""
> >
> > The big benefit of committing yourself (vs. automatic commits) is you
> > can easily tell from the commit message wh
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
> > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
> > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
> > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
> > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having
> > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my
> > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote:
>
> I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having edited a
> preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my system. I
> didn't want updated versions either OOo or Firefox that badly!!
>
> But, as I have said: where
On Sunday 22 May 2011 23:10:28 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
> > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> > Pin-Priority: 200
> >
> > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
>
> It's just as
On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set
> > > >
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
> > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
> >
> >
On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote:
>
> For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
>
> It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it?
It's just as I expected.
> As I said, I have set nothing manually. Aptitude set
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it
> > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.
>
> [...]
>
> > 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-
Hi,
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
>
> Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it up!
> I have never dared touch my preferences file.
[...]
> 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
> release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-back
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:04:09 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
> > I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least,
> > I was two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
>
> Please post the output
On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote:
>
> I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I
> was
> two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'.
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> > According to the backports instructions si
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote:
>On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
>> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> > this isn't required for
this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
> > along with the other repos via "apt-get update"?
>
> I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I
> was
> two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, th
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> > this isn't required for
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
> along with the oth
along with the other repos via "apt-get update"?
I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I was
two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change?
Lisi
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According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
along with the other repos via "apt-get update"?
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