On 6/12/2018 9:15 PM, murta...@stat.orst.edu wrote:
I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file,
which now looks like this:
deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates
main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
contrib non-free
# my bad:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
I have read that it's difficult or impossible to revert to 'stable' once
'testing' packages have been installed. I have also read that it's not a
good idea to have both 'stable' and 'testing' repositories in
'sources.list',
If you want to be able to install packages from the testing repositories
while being on stable you should realy have a look at 'apt-pinning':
https://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
If you install packages from testing while being on stable be warned
about possible dependencies issues!
--
John Doe
