Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages
Grant Edwards wrote:
> In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:10:11AM -0500, Grant Edwards
>> wrote:
>
>
>>> The next thing I can't figure out is why dpkg is
>>> using "potato" packages and apt-get is using
>>> "stable". The "available" list in /var/lib/dpkg
>>> shows all packages are from potato, and apt-get's
>>> sources list is all stable.
I noticed this the other day when I made my fresh install,
so I changed it during the install process at the
appropriate prompt.
>>
>> It's a bit screwy ... but fortunately will be "fixed"
>> by releasing. :)
>
>
> So it's normal for an install done with woody floppies to
> use "stable" as the source for packages?
>
I wouldn't say 'normal' - you have to think about what
woody, the current *testing* version, is. It will be the
*next* stable release and so the boot floppies should be
pointing at *stable* as stable will at that point be woody.
Having said that, it would seem to make more sense to point
at 'woody' or 'potato' or whatever by default rather than
'stable', but I'm willing to live with it because I don't
have the faintest idea how they make it all work so well in
the first place :)
The point being if you're installing a stable Debian release
the boot-floppies will *always* be fine.
>
>> Try editing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and
>> then running 'dselect update'.
>
>
> I was about to edit sources.list and do apt-get
> update/upgrade last night, but wasn't sure it would do
> what I wanted. Should I really use dselect isntead of
> apt-get? I've never had much success with dselect in the
> past.
>
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