Re: Using apt-get upgrade-Any way to get list first? Solved!
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:10:23AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:54:20PM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> > I don't see anyone having replied yet, so....
> >
> > If you use APT, you can 'apt-get upgrade -u' which will show you the
> > packages to be upgraded. You can then say no to continuing and put on hold
> > anything that you don't want coming down the pipe.
>
> They did, thanks, and one with the same advice. I'll cc this to the list
> so no one else gets caught.
>
> BTW, do you know the deb ftp address for sources.list? I only have the
> http one and the ftp would be faster.
there's just been a thread recently about ftp vs. http, and how
http should be faster.
to see if it's true for you, munge your sources.list to use FTP,
and do "apt-get update" and then put it back to HTTP, and do
"apt-get update" again and see which one really really sucks.
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