On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:56, dman wrote: > > > What if you use "testing" and "unstable" instead of "woody" and "sid" > > in your preferences file? There was some discussion on that recently, > > and some people said using names doesn't work. I've only tried with > > the description and haven't had problems. > > Works with "testing" and "unstable" (both in sources.list and > preferences). Thanks. Any idea why this is?
Why? I think apt designer thought that is the RIGHT way. See some bug archives. I think it would be nice but after reading previous bug reports, I did not bother. Anyway, there is not much negative and documentation example only use testing, unstable, ... -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
