Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Morgan Fletcher wrote:
> 
> I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to
> unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at
> unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato
> (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink.
> 
> So now dselect shows a bunch of packages that aren't available in slink,
> e.g. linux-source-2.0.36.
> 
> Is there a way to reduce the scope of apt's and dpkg's database to just the
> slink (and I guess legacy hamm) packages?
> 


	Not sure what you are asking here.  You can put both hamm and
slink in sources.list at the same time.  apt will get the packages
files for both of them and then merge the two together.  This is
what I'm doing (slink+potato).


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Ed C.