My workstation runs sid, and I am seeing something wierd. At 11:16am, apticron ran on it and I had the expected 109 packages ready to install. I wanted to wait until I got home to do the upgrade, because one of the packages was the new kernel.
Well, when I got home and did an aptitude update ; aptitude full-upgrade, of the 109 packages, all that were there were libavcodec51, login and passwd.
I then added /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99default-release and pointed it to unstable, and did the command again, and it downloaded the unstable repos and the huge list of updates were back. Timing or adding that file? I'm not sure. But...In doing research before posting this, I saw a post on
debianhelp.co.uk saying that aptitude only used ~/.aptitude/config and /etc/apt/apt.conf. This is apparently no longer the case.
Thanks,
--b
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mi, 16 feb 11, 18:53:06, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I've kind of ignored this since what I had was working, plus I haven't found
> any docs on it. At some point (lenny?), debian transitioned from monolithic
> files to breaking them up into smaller files in their .d directories.
> Specifically, I wanted to know best practices with /etc/apt/apt.conf and
> /etc/apt/sources.list. I will take each in turn.
As far as I can tell the options in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ are processed
in order, which means that a later file will override *the same* setting
made in a previous file (which reminds me I should rename my 00-local-*
to 99-local-*).
Whether you need to split sources.list and/or apt.conf is really up to
you. Personally I prefer to have them split into small logical blocks
and removing a setting or source is as simple as
# git rm apt/../foobar
(yes, I have parts of /etc in git)
Regards,
Andrei
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