Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:

>> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is using "potato" packages and
>> apt-get is using "stable".  The "available" list in /var/lib/dpkg shows all
>> packages are from potato, and apt-get's sources list is all stable.
> 
> It's a bit screwy ... but fortunately will be "fixed" by releasing. :)

So it's normal for an install done with woody floppies to use
"stable" as the source for packages? 

> Try editing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and then running
> 'dselect update'.

I was about to edit sources.list and do apt-get update/upgrade
last night, but wasn't sure it would do what I wanted.  Should
I really use dselect isntead of apt-get?  I've never had much
success with dselect in the past.

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