Re: sources.list
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:32:09PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman 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
> > 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.
>
> Well, here's a reason:
>
> I just installed potato on a laptap, then switched to woody in
> sources/list and did dist-upgrade. Then I went to install emacs19 but it's
> not in woody. So I added the potato line and then installed emacs19. I
> have tons of emacs19 custom lisp that I haven't ported to emacs20 yet.
so when a package has become extinct (not present in woody, for
example) you manage to get a legacy copy from potato.
i'm just saying -- when smoething breaks, be not surprised,
complain not, frown not.
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