At 11:51 PM 5/3/2002 -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes: > You can switch to a different VT and kill base-config once it goes into > its loop, install the one from unstable, and run base-config by hand. Or > better, boot up to single user mode in the first reboot, upgrade > base-config to unstable's at that point, and let it boot on up to > multiuser for a clean test of unstable's base-config. It's not that easy. If you kill base-config, then init will just start another one. You have to edit it out of /etc/inittab, kill it off, and then do what Joey says.
I remain confused. I experienced the looping bug. I edited /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable and did an apt-get update and upgrade of base-config. I then changed my sources.list to point back to testing.
I ran base-config - no loop! - but now it's getting from "stable" instead of from testing.
I don't mind running a partial potato, since I'm installing this on my son's new system, but I was kind of hoping to get from stuff woody instead. Is this a feature of base-config, or did I lamely overlook a switch or config file that would have forced it to get from stable? My sources.list just had a single line at this point:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
but now, lo and behold, it has a bunch of lines in addition to/following
that one, all pointing to various "stable" sites.
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