Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 06:54:41PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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?
Unfortunately so, as far as I know.
> > 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.
'dselect update' doesn't imply running dselect's full-screen interface.
It's just a layer over 'apt-get update' which also updates dpkg's
available file, and thus makes certain parts of the system behave more
consistently.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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