Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing
> > for the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this
> > cause trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new
> > distribution when testing suddenly becomes stable.
>
> yes you can and imho it makse very much sense. as using 'stable' makes
> no sense at all imho.
>
> frankly, the fact that debian puts 'stable' in source.list
> automatically is littlebit scaring. For example when sarge is new
> stable one day, and im doing another (semi-)automatic apt-get upgrade,
> theres good chance that this messes some things up.
It's quite deliberate. Some day, woody won't be security-supported any
more.
> for example, lately i had woody running , nice and clean.
> Now I put 'sarge' everywhere in source.list and did 'apt-get update &&
> apt-get -u dist-upgrade'.
>
> Now, packages did'nt get upgraded, but most of the packages were
> removed. And I had only woody's official packages installed, no
> selfmade.
Did you file a bug, or report this anywhere?
> there are more things in debian that are weird, like most /etc/init.d/
> scripts that doesnt give you any feedback (at least not to stdout)
Every Debian init.d script that starts a daemon says something like
"Starting web server: apache."
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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