Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > > been afraid to do that. > > > > Yes,

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Tommy wrote: > > > > When I upgraded the package lists of > > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ... > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > been a

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable, > > except for packages that are only in one or the other. The intersection > > of stable and unstable would just be the same as unstable anyway. Right

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > Does it merge stable and unstable and just show the newest version of > > each package, > > Yes. > > or keep them separate so I can choose? > > No Hmmm, that doesn't seem much different than if you just define unstable,

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > been afraid to do that. > > Yes, you can do that. Just make sure you go i

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Jim Foltz
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 08:01:43PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > > been afraid to do that. > > Yes, y

dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
Tommy wrote: > > When I upgraded the package lists of > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ... This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always been afraid to do that. -- ...RickM...