Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:20:46PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net> writes:
> > > Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want?
> > >
> > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> > >
> > > This way you don't have to worry about it.
> >
> > I assume this works fine now, with apt, because I've seen a couple of
> > people recommend it, but there used to be a problem with this method
> > because the "Packages" file referred to the the "status" release name,
> > eg., stable, frozen, unstable, rather than the name. I know the
> > Packages file still does this, eg.,
> >
> > Package: 3dchess
> > ...
> > Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/games/3dchess_0.8.1-4.deb
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> > but perhaps apt-get can "figure it out"? Maybe the trouble I
> > experienced came before the apt-get days?
I've been following Potato as "potato" on my i386 development system and
haven't seen problems with potato versus unstable/frozen. Except: I had to
manually adjust symlinks on my local apt-cache for apt-move and apache to
be happy. I THINK that little problem might be fixed with the current
apt-move, though I haven't bothered to check yet. Have to do that before
Potato goes stable, though.
> That I do not know, as I only recently switched to Debian (to be
> slightly more specific it was right after Slink became available
> on CD from the usual vendors - LinuxMall / CheapBytes as in). What
> I do know is the the two lines I quoted are the only active lines
> in my /etc/apt/sources.conf (IOW all other lines are comments) and
> it works just fine.
>
> When I first started with Debian, I did use dselect some. But since
> discovering apt I've not even touched dselect once. Definite kudos
> to the folks that developed / maintain apt.
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