Re: Woody idepci bootfloppies install stable over testing base system
> I am installing Debian Woody from scratch on a Dell Inspiron 2500 (don't
> think this matters, anyway) from 1.44 idepci 2.2.20 boot floppies.
Everything
> before rebooting worked fine. But after tasksel, when it actually apt-gets
> packages I got all sorts of weird errors and dependency problems from
dpkg.
> dselect reported several important packages to be obsolete! After checking
> /etc/apt/sources.list I saw why: The automatically generated sources.list
pointed to
> the stable distribution. I had chosen the mirror ftp.se.debian.org in
> Sweden. Maybe this is just a temporary inconsistency while woody is
becoming
> stable, but it is quite anoying. So if anyone else tries to do a fresh
install of
> Woody before it is actually stable on the mirrors, EDIT your sources.list
> MANUALLY!
And, as an added note, if you edit the sources.list created by the installer
manually, off course the local package lists are still from stable. The
obvious thing to do is an `apt-get update`, but if you want to use tasksel
this is not enough (the tasks are quite weird), so you will have to run
dselect and choose 'update'. Anyone know why this is?
Matthijs
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