On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:40:59AM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > what is missing is you cannot also keep up on security updates by > > issuing `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' regularly, doing so will > > bring the entire system up to `unstable' unless you futz with the > > sources list every time you want to upgrade a couple packages to the > > `unstable' versions. > > You can keep two versions of the sources.list file around. You > also need two apt.conf files, which you can select with the > APT_CONF environment variable. And don't forget to specify > APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false" in the config files to minimize > downloads. You can hide this with a little shell skript. what would be nice is a switch to apt to select the distribution if more then one is specified in the sources list, maybe whichever is listed first should be used by default, and overriden by --dist woody or something like that. i suppose a wrapper script could take care of this, you probably know more about apts configurability then i do. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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