Re: dist-upgrade

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@relog.ch>]

Olaf Grewe wrote:

> up to now, I'm quite fine with stable, so my /etc/apt/sources.list reads
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
> non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> For various urges, I'd like to do a dist-upgrade to testing, but postings on
> this list indicates, that testing is broken for powerpc.

I didn't see any... have you tried it?


> So I changed my sources.list to read
> 
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org sid/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> but then I got errors on accessing http://security.debian.org.
> 
> Are there no security-updates jet available for sid, or is it just me, being
> wrong?

There are only security updates for stable. Packages with security holes in
unstable are just replaced with new versions, which isn't possible in stable,
hence it needs the security updates.


Michel


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