On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:20:46PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > > > I assume this works fine now, with apt, because I've seen a couple of > > people recommend it, but there used to be a problem with this method > > because the "Packages" file referred to the the "status" release name, > > eg., stable, frozen, unstable, rather than the name. I know the > > Packages file still does this, eg., > > > > Package: 3dchess > > ... > > Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/games/3dchess_0.8.1-4.deb > > ^^^^^^ > > > > but perhaps apt-get can "figure it out"? Maybe the trouble I > > experienced came before the apt-get days? I've been following Potato as "potato" on my i386 development system and haven't seen problems with potato versus unstable/frozen. Except: I had to manually adjust symlinks on my local apt-cache for apt-move and apache to be happy. I THINK that little problem might be fixed with the current apt-move, though I haven't bothered to check yet. Have to do that before Potato goes stable, though. > That I do not know, as I only recently switched to Debian (to be > slightly more specific it was right after Slink became available > on CD from the usual vendors - LinuxMall / CheapBytes as in). What > I do know is the the two lines I quoted are the only active lines > in my /etc/apt/sources.conf (IOW all other lines are comments) and > it works just fine. > > When I first started with Debian, I did use dselect some. But since > discovering apt I've not even touched dselect once. Definite kudos > to the folks that developed / maintain apt. > -- > 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.
