On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > At this point, potato and woody are very similar, so it might not be as big > of a download as you fear. You could try pointing your sources.list at
before I wrote my message I did try a dist-upgrade...and it was going to be around 160 megs...which isn't that bad...but its still around 10 hours... > woody, issuing your apt-get commands (apt-get update ; apt-get install > package1 package2... for individual package updates, apt-get update ; apt-get > dist-upgrade to do everything), and see how much data needs to be grabbed to > fulfill that request, then allow or cancel it. > This is what I have been doing for the packages I have already done. I guess my question was is there a way to tell apt-get to use woody for some packages and potato for others...without manually switching my sources.list every time between potato and woody. > > agitates both my isp and me(grammar?). > > Yes, that is correct. > thanks...it sounded funny and I don't have any grammar books around -sean
