On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:23:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:56:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:42:33AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:14:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Actually that's the correct one. > > > > yeah, I see that now. > > > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version > > > > > > And it also doesn't work with codenames. > > > > that one is news to me. I certainly get no errors. > > I know. I noticed that only because of changed behaviour. On a different > machine I am running stable mixed with testing. When I set it up the > first time I did it exactly as in the APT-HOWTO. Recently I was doing > some changes and I changed "stable" to "sarge" and suddenly 'aptitude > dist-upgrade' wanted to upgrade everything to testing, ignoring the > Default-Release option. Or at least this is how I recall it. Can't test > right now because the hdd is broken :(
well thanks for the heads up. I guess I've been fortunate enough to not have multiple releases in sources.list, thus preventing the problem. good luck with that hdd A
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