Re: apt-get and dselect misalignment
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:22:18AM -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> I hope it's not too bad, but I've noticed my apt-get going to attain
> .deb from Potato, yet I've upgraded to testing.
How do you know? did you run "apt-cache policy packagename" to see
situation after running "apt-get update"?
> Dselect goes to acquire from the proper directory (testing). My questions
> are:
> How does this happen?
I guess you forget "apt-get update"? Or you have strange pin set in
/etc/apt/preferences (see man apt_preferences)
> How do I make sure both packaging tools, or all for that matter, are
> acquiring from my designations and not past autoconfigurations?
Edit all 3 files correctly by hand after reading man pages:
/etc/apt/preferences
/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/apt.conf
> I've tried apt-config, but it goes for the higher levels in the
> Debian directory tree, like contrib, main, non-US, etc. I need to
> change its hunt before that like testing, unstable, and potato, etc.
# apt-get install apt-howto/testing
$ lynx http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/
Also my memo:
$ lynx http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-woody.html
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