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Re: apt sources.list



I agree,  it's one of the first things I change on a new debian install.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> The default sources.list file has lines referring to stable, instead of
> slink or potato or whatever the current stable release is. 
> 
> This means that, when potato is declared stable, when people have
> lines like:
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable  main  contrib non-free
> in their apt sources.list, will automaticly upgrade to the new stable
> version if they run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.
> 
> Would it be a good idea to change the default sources.list to something
> like:
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato  main  contrib  non-free
>                                      ^^^^^^
> I think it would, and I am curious why this is not currently the case.
> I havn't been able to find anything about this, could anyone educate me
> on this subject?
> 
> Wouter
> 
> 
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