A friend asked me by twitter for a software for automatic security updates in Debian. Honestly I don’t trust in automatic stuff, but this software appears interesting. I searched in the cache: apt-cache search automatic update and I found cron-apt. How to use (at least in Debian) I.- Yes Mr. Obviously, install it. # apt-get [...]
This is not a Quilt’s tutorial, is a quick reference (to me :)). Honest I miss dpatch, now in Debian quilt is the “official” patch system then: you like it or you like it (that sound better in Spanish) :) Let’s play! quilt store the patches into: debian/patches (like as usual) and use a file [...]
I already read many post about “Debian post-installation” most of them focused on packages for multimedia, games, video, eye candy, desktop etc. Personally after to install any desktop environment I install devel packages for obviously reasons, my “Debian post-installation recipe”: apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install vim dpkg-dev git file gcc libc6-dev make patch perl [...]
I used SID since I started using Debian, but today I wanted to try testing, the logic tells you that the easiest way is to replace “unstable” to “testing” in your sources.list. However we can do better, look for the more fastest “mirrors” and even filter by country. #apt-get install apt-spy #apt-spy update #apt-spy -d [...]