Rejig apt Config Now That Woody = stable ?
I've been running Woody-testing for a while, so now that Woody is
released do I need to amend my apt config files to take account of the
fact that Woody = stable and Sarge = testing ?
I've been using the "pinning" method to ensure I get updates from
testing unless I specify unstable, so I currently have :
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MYBOX:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
[...]
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
non-free
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
MYBOX:/etc/apt# cat preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
=========================< cut >===========================
Presumably, with these config settings a straight apt-get will now get
me packages from Sarge ..
I've seen a post from Vineet Kumar on 3.Jul.2002 at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg00346.html
which suggests you can use the release codenames instead of
descriptive names in the config files - i.e.
use "woody" instead of "stable"
use "sarge" instead of "testing"
use "sid" instead of "unstable"
So, e.g. in "sources.list" :
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
instead of
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
Is this true ?
Is it the Right Thing To Do ?
Thanks,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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