On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:59:09PM -0700, evenso wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:15:33PM -0700, Mark wrote: > >After apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, 13 > > packages were updated/upgraded including apt. Am I supposed to keep the > > proposed updates repos active in sources.list for the life of squeeze, or do > > something else? What if I comment it out now? I want this to be a stable > > system. This is a brand new area for me so any help is appreciated. Also, > > after doing this, the bug in Squeeze is fixed, but after I boot into Windows > > 7 on the dual-boot machine and reboot into Squeeze, it passes the Grub > > splash screen and then some tests until it gets to the section dealing with > > the drives/devices and completely freezes with blinking cursor and no > > activity. A hard shut down is required. Anyone else experienced this? > > > > Run > > apt-cache policy > > If squeeze-proposed-updates is a priority of 100, it should update if > necessary any of the packages installed without adding packages from that > archive > unless you manually install.
To clarify: 100 would only update packages specifically from that release if there any squeeze-proposed-updates specific packages and if they are installed. But I would guess that most squeeze-proposed-updates packages will show up in squeeze eventually. > > If squeeze is a priority of 500, you might consider making squeeze your > default in your /etc/apt/apt.conf file. > > As root: > > echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf > That should give squeeze a priority of 990, which would insure squeeze updates and security updates only to squeeze packages. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110519201719.GB8991@Europa.office
