On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:22:04PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:54, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing for > > the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this cause > > trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new distribution when > > testing suddenly becomes stable. > > Sarge *SUDDENLY* becoming Stable. Don't make me laugh. > > We aren't even into freeze yet. > > When that happens, then you should maybe worry about that.
Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont know but I could imagine that the distribution specifier is just being used to build up a pathname on the http/ftp server. So the question would be if there is a policy that debian mirrors are required to provide links/directories named after the release or if they only need to have stable, testing and unstable? And Greg, please think of machines running for a long time and upgrading automatically through a cronjob or something. Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
