Re: Upgrading to Testing (was: Re: Ive been getting scanned...)
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:07:24AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade
> from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to
> replace the lines for stable with:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> but this will also get packages from unstable, which I would prefer not
> to do at this time. If I do make these changes and do an 'apt-get
> update/upgrade' then apt wants to upgrade 188 packages on my box, add 40
> some packages and delete 11 packages. If I only have the line for
> testing in my sources.list then 'upgrade' only wants to change 7
> packages and 'dist-upgrade' also updates only 7 packages and wants to
> delete 3 others. There is much that simply does not exist in testing
> that is in stable and unstable. I thought that testing was a complete
> set of packages, but this does not seem to be the case. Can anyone
> explain exactly the way packages flow through the system, including when
> a new release becomes stable?
>
You really could have started another string here. Anyway your
questions are answered at -
http://www.debian.org/releases/
kent
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