* Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es) [041227 10:28]: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Thierry wrote: > > > APT::Default-Release "sarge"; > > Do you actually have a line in /etc/apt/sources.list saying "sarge"? > > If not, I recommend that you drop your apt.conf entirely and modify > sources.list exclusively so that it reads "sarge", and nothing else. > > sarge and testing are *currently* the same thing, but this information > is not "hardcoded" into apt, so don't expect apt to know that "sarge" > in apt.conf refers to the line saying "testing" in your sources.list. Not exactly. The APT::Default-Release config item matches an "Archive:" line specified in the Release file from an apt archive. Currently, the files I see in /var/lib/apt/lists for sarge look like this: Archive: testing Component: main Origin: Debian Label: Debian Architecture: i386 even though I have sarge specified in sources.list. The point is that the apt config item matches the info specified in the Release file, independent of how that was retrieved (which is what the URL specifiers in sources.list are for). I think the best way to get what you want is to have lines for sarge and unstable in sources.list (not "testing") and specify your apt preferences to prefer stable, testing, unstable, in that order. This way, it will default to packages from testing (sarge) before the release. After the release, it will still prefer packages from a testing archive, but there won't be any in your sources.list. Now stable will be preferred over unstable. Using just "Default-Release: testing" would break after the release, since the sarge archive will now say "Archive: stable", which won't match, so the default preferences will apply, which means unstable, since those will be the highest version numbers. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --President Thomas Jefferson
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