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Debian: online network interfaces reconfiguration with fallback to previous values

imp — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:21:18 +0000

While inside screen:

/etc/init.d/networking stop; sleep 5; /etc/init.d/networking start; sleep 30; cp interfaces.old interfaces; /etc/init.d/networking stop; sleep 5; /etc/init.d/networking start

Limiting apt-get download speed

imp — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:08:40 +0000

create file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/76download with content:

Acquire { Queue-mode "access"; http { Dl-Limit "25"; }; };

That limits apt-get to 25KB/s

I’m just an old chunk of coal, but I’m gonna be a diamond some day

imp — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:03:38 +0000

A good ol' from Ubuntu *and* Debian bugs:

Dimitrios Symeonidis wrote on 2008-10-14: (permalink)

this bug will soon celebrate it's 3rd birthday. it's marked as confirmed, high importance, and reported upstream (debian). are we going to do something about it, or are we just waiting for debian to resolve this?

(Emphasis added for extra lulz)

Deluge Torrent and Etch Backports

imp — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:46:12 +0000

Simply wonderful.

I don't have to get it from testing and "break" my stable box with mixed trees!

backports as default, stable as fallback

imp — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:44:37 +0000

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

Add to /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: * Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700

Add to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00Cache:
APT::Cache-Limit "33554432"; APT::Default-Release "etch-backports";

Do:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Apt pinning: installing unstable packages on stable Debian

imp — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:15:54 +0000

Minimal sources.list configuration.

/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib

When updgrading, stable versions of packages need to stay on stable. unstable versions are usually newer, so they overwrite stable versions if this is not properly handled with using Pin-Priority as stated below. If not explicitly requested, "apt-get install" installs stable version of a package.

/etc/apt/preferences:
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600

To install f.e. unstable version of a package with dependencies from unstable as well (preferred method, AFAIK), do the following:
apt-get install package -t unstable

To install the same package, but to resolve it's deps from stable:
apt-get install package/unstable