Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
>
> > Potato is newer.
> > You want to get potato.
> > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list
> > so that it contains only the lines
> >
> > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
> >
> > Comment out any other deb lines.
> >
> > then as, root,
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get install apt debconf
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Misters, why the newlly (i suppose) stable 'potato' dist did not
> get pointed by the 'stable' symbolic link? Any good razon for it?
Because potato is not "stable" yet. It is still "frozen", which means it
is preparing for release (stable).
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