Re: Woody: apt mysteriously wants to pull in 100 MB from sid. Why?
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 19:56, dman wrote:
>
> > What if you use "testing" and "unstable" instead of "woody" and "sid"
> > in your preferences file? There was some discussion on that recently,
> > and some people said using names doesn't work. I've only tried with
> > the description and haven't had problems.
>
> Works with "testing" and "unstable" (both in sources.list and
> preferences). Thanks. Any idea why this is?
Why? I think apt designer thought that is the RIGHT way. See some bug
archives.
I think it would be nice but after reading previous bug reports, I did
not bother.
Anyway, there is not much negative and documentation example only use
testing, unstable, ...
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