On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:22:38 +0000, Alan C wrote:
> I'm a Debian newbie.
Welcome, you sure sound like one!
> 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'.
Well then, you can just take them out of sources.list and let
them lie until they get into stable.
Or you can substitute them by testing packages in a mixed
distributions configuration, and also wait -- in this case you get
more packages changed from stable, but a smoother transition of these
packages into stable. You would need to read the pertinent section of the
apt HOWTO.
> I would like to get all stable, US and non-US, main and
> contrib.
Go ahead!
> 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)?
Not damaged, but never upgraded until there are newer packages in
stable. Isn't this what you want?
> What should I put in sources.list ?
Take some samples and go from there... or just use something
like apt-spy.
> 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.
If you want specific advise, please publish *your* file *and*
the error messages you get. You must understand your paragraph above
is useless as a troubleshooting input.
> Has anyone compiled a definitive list of all possible
> combinations allowed in sources.list ?
Neither necessary, nor useful, nor practical -- perhaps not
even possible.
> Should I leave the backport lines in sources.list
> or remove them?
Up to you. I'd remove them, but that's because I am partial
to the mixed distributions mechanism.
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