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Re: Aptitude updating Sarge to Etch?



On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:21:10PM +0200, dcorking wrote:
> 
> Since "Etch" became "stable" on April 8, is it possible that aptitude 
> updated many packages from Sarge to Etch for Jan?

Who is Jan?

> However, today I was looking for the php4 security update in aptitude 
> - sure enough it was there, but aptitude told me to hit 'U' begore 'g' 
> 'g'.  Now it suprised me with a long list of packages to remove (ok - 
> I don't need them), and a long list of upgrades - even a very 
> surprising apache2.0 to apache2.2  I looked at the apache2 changelog, 
> and saw the update marked as Urgent, but no mention of the change from 
> sarge to etch.  This certainly sounds like a distribution upgrade.

U (not u) in aptitude is the equivalent of dist-upgrade. Do you have 
stable in sources.list? If you want to stay with sarge then you need 
either 'old-stable' or 'sarge'.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
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(Albert Einstein)

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