* Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [2006:06:05:09:38:40+0200] scribed: <snip /> > Better don't mix sarge and etch. That can confuse apt. <snip /> Where can I read up on the ramifications of this? On this very list, I was advised to use sarge to get kde onto my system. My understanding of apt, preferences and pinning -- although a meager understanding -- is that "mixing" issues can be mitigated. What am I missing? > Maybe the previous apt-get update call just fetched a broken > Release.gpg file and thus failed to authenticate the mirror. Believe > it or not, that happens far too often. Now, after the next mirror > pulse has corrected the problem, you got a working one and the problem > disapeared. OK. Is it fair to suppose that I am not a lazy moron; and that this is a fair explanation; rather than that I do not fully understand the subject error message? -- Best Regards, helices - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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