Re: Apt with two dists

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 vaidhy@wwdg.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>  I have a local mirror of debian with hamm and slink for binary-i386. 
> When I point apt at my mirror and ask it to update the packages, it 
> gets confused with hamm and slink. 
> 
> For eg: kernel-package 5.06 is in hamm and 5.07 is in slink. apt tries
> to read 5.06 from slink. 
> 
> What should I do if I have to install packages from both hamm and slink?
> 
> Thanks,
> Vaidhy
> 
> PS: my sources.list look like
> 
> file://debian/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-us
> file://debian/debian stable man contrib non-free non-us

You should reverse the order, placing the stable entry before the unstable
entry.  I assume "man" was a typo and you really have "main".

Bob

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