Hi All I'm a Debian newbie.
I understand it's possible to use apt-get once every couple of weeks or so to keep a system up-to-date. When I installed Debian 3.0r1, some of the software I wanted to use specified Gnome2.2, so I've gone beyond stable and put the following 'backports' at the top of my sources.list file: --- deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/ deb http://mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/ --- I did this trustingly as I don't understand the concept of 'backporting'... I would now like to follow just the 'stable' updates and let my non-stable stuff stay as it is until it enters the stable 'stream'. I would like to get all stable, US and non-US, main and contrib. Is it just a case of doing a regular: apt-get update apt-get upgrade with all 'stable' lines in sources.list, or will the 'backports' be damaged (or never upgraded)? What should I put in sources.list ? I've tried putting every possible option in to sources.list according to the DEB URI DISTRIBUTION [COMPONENT1] [COMPONENENT2] [...] rule, but I get lots of file-not-found errors. Has anyone compiled a definitive list of all possible combinations allowed in sources.list ? Should I leave the backport lines in sources.list or remove them? Any help much appreciated. Thanks Alan -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
