On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:18:27PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2003 11:23:46 -0700 > Ben Hartshorne <debian_user@green.hartshorne.net> wrote: > > > I put "Apt::Default-Release='stable'" along with the testing listings in > > /etc/apt/sources.list. I did it to get bogofilter. About 6 extra > > packages came along (I think libc6 2.2 was one of them) but the system > > seemed perfectly happy to keep both libc6s around. > > > > I havn't seen any problems. > > > > Is there something lurking that's going to bite me? > > Yes, there is; it just hasn't bitten you yet. But if you continue to install > testing/unstable packages on a stable system sooner or later it will bite, > and maybe hard. ok, so before I go digging through the apt-howto again, any tips on how to repair my currently-split machine? apt-showversions can show me everything I've gotten from the unstable distro, right? Then I can apt-get -t stable or apt-get remove each of those packages? ::sigh:: I'd like to suggest changing section 3.8 of the apt-howto to specifically warn that the method they discuss there should only be used from unstable to testing, and never from stable to unstable. I was reading through documentation trying to figure out how to have bogofilter on my stable system, and that was the best answer I got. Perhaps backports should be mentioned there too. hmm. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne email: ben@hartshorne.net http://ben.hartshorne.net
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