On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Roberto C. Sanchez told: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of > > Robert Cates told: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm > > > wanting > > > to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation (ie, > > > source.list > > > file) to keep using apt-get update/upgrade.(?) > > > If your sources.list says "woody", not changing it will result in no > furhter changes to the system (other than the security updates that will > continue for about 12 more months). If it says stable, the next time > after the FTP masters update the archives to have stable be Sarge, you > will get new packages from Sarge. > > > Just put in your /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > > > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > > APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "yes"; > > > > and call your distri stable and not woody in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > > > I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to > specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. > For example, woody, sarge, sid, etc. > > It is much more apparent, that way, what the intent is.
But is needed if you have i.e. unstable entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. In that case you can install packages via apt-get install -t unstable foo Elimar -- Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike the office water cooler;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
