On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > > and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable'
> > > in sources.list once i've replaced 'testing' with 'etch'? or have the
> > > ref's to 'stable' been ignored all along, beginning at the point where i
> > > put the ref's to 'testing' in sources.list?
> >
> > ugh. that's another problem. what is the contents of apt.conf?
>
> i have only '/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf'. content is:
>
> // $Id: apt.conf,v 1.43 1999/12/06 02:19:38 jgg Exp $
> /* This file is a sample configuration file with a few harmless sample
> options.
> */
>
> APT
> {
> // Options for apt-get
> Get
> {
> Download-Only "false";
> };
>
> };
>
> // Options for the downloading routines
> Acquire
> {
> Retries "0";
> };
>
> // Things that effect the APT dselect method
> DSelect
> {
> Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never
> };
>
> DPkg
> {
> // Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
> Options {"--force-overwrite";}
> }
>
>
> >
> > and how about uname -a?
>
> debian:/etc/apt# uname -a
> Linux debian 2.6.16.4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Apr 16 06:39:49 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> >
> > IOW, what are you currently running? just because you have both stable
> > and testing in your sources.list doesn't mean you are necessarily
> > running one or the other.
> >
> > If you are truly running testing, then you can comment out the stable
> > lines. If you are running stable then the move to testing is a big one
> > and not taken lightly.
> >
> > A
>
>
> the content of sources.list btw is:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian \
> stable main contrib non-free
> #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US \
> stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian \
> etch main contrib non-free
> #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US \
> etch/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> #deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ \
> stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/ \
> stable/updates main contrib non-free
> #deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ \
> etch main non-free contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/ \
> etch/updates main contrib non-free
>
> i replaced 'testing' with 'etch' today and haven't used apt-get since.
>
> how do i tell which version (testing/stable) i'm running?
> you'll have to check the version numbers of a few things. I don't know how apt behaves if you don't specify a default distribution when there are multiple sources. for example, I have my apt_preferences set for "sid" on this machine as follows: APT::Default-Release "sid"; on another machine I have it set in apt.conf, which is probably wrong. regardless, what is your version of libc6? that's probably the best indicator at this point. one of my etch boxes is running dpkg -l | grep libc6 ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi stable is currently, per packages.debian.org, 2.3.2 so figure out which you're running and that will clue you in to what to do. If you're actually running stable, despite the entries in sources.list, then you should probably stay there until etch moves stable and we see what the shake-up is. If you are running etch, then you can leave your entries like they are, or delete stable if you want, as etch and stable will soon be synonomous. Once etch is stable, you'll probably want to delete the etch lines so you don't someday follow etch into oldstable. A
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