Re: sources.list
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:22:52PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> ooh. that sets my teeth on edge. you should pick WHICH you want
> (potato = well-tested, solid, STABLE; woody = avant-garde,
> tinkerings, incoming, new, probably works) and stay with that
> distribution.
More significantly, I suspect that the potato line above is entirely
superfluous. When apt goes to install something, it grabs the most recent
version available, based on version number. Testing is always at least as
recent as (and usually more recent than) stable, so I suspect that the above
configuration is effectively equivalent to listing only woody, except that it
makes you download more package listings.
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