RE: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list

[Bryan Scaringe <bryan.scaringe@computer.org>]

Opps,
        When in doubt, I should read the man pages.
Looks like apt will go through sources.list, and will install the package from
the first source it finds.  if I am reading "man sources.list" correctly :)

Bryan


On 04-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>> I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in
>> sources.list
>> for both stable and unstable trees at the same time.  How does apt/dselect
>> handle this?  Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or
>> unstable?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>>         Bryan
> 
> I was just thinking about this last night, and it seems to me that to avoid
> downgrading my system, it is better to explicitly have "potato" or "slink" or
> whatever in my sources.list.  After all, slink is always slink, but
> "unstable"
> can mean different things at different times.
> 
> --
> Andrew