Hello,
Can anyone share their apt sources? (Someone in Bangalore, possibly - surely folks here should know the fastest mirrors as far as Bangalore is concerned, shouldn't they? I could have used apt-spy but it takes hours.) Furthermore, is it a good idea to upgrade from Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (the stuff that came in a DVD with PC Quest in 2004 December) to the latest unstable?
I have not done this in a long time, so I am a bit worried about the whole thing. I wouldn't want to end up with a broken glibc or some such and be the laughingstock for my Windows XP-toting brethren. :)
Thanks in advance.
Sajith.
--- Sajith T S sajith@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone share their apt sources? (Someone in Bangalore, possibly - surely folks here should know the fastest mirrors as far as Bangalore is concerned, shouldn't they? I could have used apt-spy but it takes hours.)
Apt-spy does take hours you can cut down the time significantly by limiting the test to Asia region using (-d , -a I guess) or using custom spy-list.
#/etc/apt/spy-list
Asia: IN JP
Furthermore, is it a good idea to upgrade from Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (the stuff that came in a DVD with PC Quest in 2004 December) to the latest unstable?
I guess so, they would be have lot of bug fixes and updates. I suggest not to go to sid unless you are ready to face a lot of package transitions that are going now to meet the December 2006 release or until freeze. That means you need some bandwidth to get these packages regularly.
Some of the fast debian repo's from my sources.list over last one year.
deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian sid main
deb ftp://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/debian unstable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
Also look at the Debian Mirror Checker (http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) for the sync status of your mirror.
Cheers
--arky
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
I guess so, they would be have lot of bug fixes and updates. I suggest not to go to sid unless you are ready to face a lot of package transitions that are going now to meet the December 2006 release or until freeze. That means you need some bandwidth to get these packages regularly.
Did a dist-upgrade to testing, and now I have got rather broken X fonts, a missing gnome panel and a lot of missing other software, 866 MB archives to be installed, and this:
# apt-get dist-upgrade / apt-get -f install
[...]
866 upgraded, 318 newly installed, 55 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 63 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/683MB of archives. After unpacking 302MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to xserver-xorg. (Reading database ... 153139 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package catdoc Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So I used dpkg --force-overwrite to install such packages. What do people normally do with such errors? Is there a place to look up such things?
Thanks, Sajith.
--- Sajith T S sajith@gmail.com wrote:
Did a dist-upgrade to testing, and now I have got rather broken X fonts, a missing gnome panel and a lot of missing other software,
Yes, its happens during upgrades. If you can zero on the problem you can always submit a bug report.
The first place is look at the Bugs page of the package http://bugs.debian.org/pkg_name and also look into the package source itself. Most often the problem is with the post/pre installer files, broken packages, dependencies issues.
Unpacking x11-common (from
.../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb
(--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is
also in package catdoc Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
code (1)
So I used dpkg --force-overwrite to install such packages. What do people normally do with such errors? Is there a place to look up such things?
Looks like there is a bug report already.
#370353 - x11-common: installation breaks when trying to overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin with a symlink - Debian Bug report logs http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370353
Cheers
--arky
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xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to xserver-xorg. (Reading database ... 153139 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package catdoc Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So I used dpkg --force-overwrite to install such packages. What do people normally do with such errors? Is there a place to look up such things?
Use dpkg-divert. `man dpkg-divert` for more info. Search the Internet for howtos on this. Regards, BG
- -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose@gnu.org The GNU Project http://www.gnu.org/
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