Question about official Woody CDs
I have a set of Debian 3.0r0 CDs which I purchased from Linux Systems
Labs. I have installed from these CDs twice successfully. Now I am
looking at the entries for these CDs in /etc/apt/sources.list and I
see something that concerns me. The lines in sources.list that were
generated by apt-cdrom add are:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
Notice the words "unstable". My concern is that this will cause
problems with the use of /etc/apt/preferences and pinning. How does
the apt software regard the packages on these CDs? As Woody, which is
stable? Or as unstable, which is Sid?
Or does this just bolix the software?
Paul
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@quiknet.com
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