On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:04:05PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from > stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This > caused dselect to complain a lot when updating package lists. So, I just > finished taking the 'frozen' parts out of all of my > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/vars files on all of my servers when..... boom, > 'frozen' is back. > > So here's a thought: After each release, can we just keep 'frozen' pointed > to the dist (ie, 'woody', 'potato', 'slink', etc.), even though 'stable' is > also now pointing to it, too?
Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free This way you don't have to worry about it. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
