moin, moin, I foresee needing to ask several questions in the near future and want to make sure I'm asking things in the right place and not SPAMming up lists inappropriately :).
Is there a debian mailing list specifically for sys_adm type of stuff? Most of my questions will be in this area. OK, now to my current question: I've got a box running stable with apt 0.5.3 out of testing. It appears that the lists dir has moved from /var/state/apt/ to /var/lib/apt/. This version allows apt-getting a specific version of a package as well as a package from a specific dist, e.g. stable, testing, unstable. It appears, however, that all of the package lists get shoved into /var/lib/apt/lists/ so that after adding testing or unstable to sources.list dist-upgrades will now go to the most recent available packages. This is actually what dist-upgrade is supposed to do, I think, but it's not my desired behavior. What I want is to be able to run stable ( or testing ), yet grab specific packages from a less stable dist. Because debian's package interface works properly this also gets the dependencies, though it would be nice to be able to request the lowest common denominator, e.g. if a testing package depends on libfoo that isn't intalled and libfoo out of stable works grab that, not the most recent libfoo that is in testing. I can live without this for now. I have been using a couple of alternative apt.conf files for some time to keep my package lists from getting muddied by multiple dists. It actually works well, but I want something I can point everyone at. I can apt-test, apt-uns and apt-sec for testing, unstable and security. The last is great for crons :). Bug #94061 is a wishlist similar to what I'm looking for, but I want to know if I'm just overlooking something. I'd prefer dist-upgrade to either default to stable or the newest version that's been upgraded to ( as listed in /etc/debian_version perhaps ). In either case there needs to be a method to move to a different dist, e.g. from stable to testing, then maybe back again when woody is released. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # It's up to the reader to make the book interesting. # An author has only the opportunity to make it uninteresting. - der.hans
