Re: wrestling with dselect

[darrell <ddupasedm@netscape.net>]

Is this in potato? 

i am still a debian newbie - havent quite figured out how to tell where
i am getting my packages / package lists and if there are 
multiple versions, 
( i ahve edidted the apt-get sources file, but, there
is no clear indication with those urls if i am in testing
stable or what? i wish the apt sources urls had a 
clue in them as to what i am getting ) plus i need to
read more docs specific to debian and the stable-testing-release
stuff, it is quite involved as i can see

i wonder if it is as simple as changing the word stable to testing?

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://download.sourceforge.net/debian stable main contrib non-free

well, guess they do, i am using stable, i used the woody install
disks, i may have this all wrong now that i think about it, but
i am getting newish versions of some programs ( X, gimp ), well
whatever, i can live with a bit of dependancy wrestling, i dont
think it is too much to expect

another thing, why are some configs in /var/lib/dpkg and others
in /etc/apt-get, i am willing to bet there are configs for 
dselect somewhere else too? symlinks would be nice, thankfully
i do have the time to look around, you must too if you are 
reading this

i will try pushing X next time i have dependancy problems in 
dselect, i had moderate succes using sed though - brute force

works sometimes? i was previously hiting /enter / Q /  +++-+ / or quiting
but got into some nasty loops

thanks - i dont know how i missed the X, duh - well i tried X and it
still wants me to unistall half my software, i dont think so!!!

darrell