Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 15:01:25 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:43:05PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > Is there a way to configure apt to disable the upgrade to insecure
> > > versions of packages?
> > ...
> > 
> > What does your /etc/apt/sources.list look like?

> 
> deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> 

Replace all the occurences of "testing" in the file with "stable" and
uncomment the lines with "unstable" in.

Do apt-get update after that and everything should be OK

Regards.
Johann
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