Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:13:23AM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:22:04PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:54, 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.
> >
> > Sarge *SUDDENLY* becoming Stable. Don't make me laugh.
> >
> > We aren't even into freeze yet.
> >
> > When that happens, then you should maybe worry about that.
>
> Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release
> codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont
> know but I could imagine that the distribution specifier is just being
> used to build up a pathname on the http/ftp server. So the question
> would be if there is a policy that debian mirrors are required to
> provide links/directories named after the release or if they only
> need to have stable, testing and unstable?
You can safely use the codenames.
> And Greg, please think of machines running for a long time and upgrading
> automatically through a cronjob or something.
I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do it;
there are lots of ways it can break.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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