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Re: Lots of packets are missing in amd64/etch...



Koen Vermeer <k.a.vermeer@tnw.tudelft.nl> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 09:34 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> >For etch to have
>> >all amd64 packages every package has to migrate to etch. That just
>> >takes time.
>> And if packages happen to have RC bugs, then that takes an even longer
>> time. ;-)
>
> So, what is the right way to handle things if one has a running etch
> system (based on debian-amd64, with a line in sources.list such as 'deb
> ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ testing contrib main
> non-free')? Do nothing until the full official etch repository is
> available? Or should one add a line to sources.list that includes the
> new, official stuff?
>
> Koen

The old archive is discontinued. You should also remove any sarge line
as that confuses apt-get (sarge and etch/sid have some packages with
the same version but debian has different debs).

Just put the official etch in there and things will upgrade as they
move into etch.

MfG
        Goswin



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