Re: keeping woody

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Clive Menzies:
> On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Clive Menzies:
> > > On (28/09/04 05:57), hendrik@pooq.com wrote:
> > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs.  When the
> > > > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running
> > > > woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge.  Oh -- I will
> > > 
> > > In your /etc/apt/sources.list change references from "stable" to "woody"
> > > and then you will continue to track woody.
> > 
> > ... Mostly.  This trick doesn't appear to work here:
> > 
> > # this works: 
> > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free
> > 
> > # this doesn't:
> > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> Ah!  Well this does here:
> deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main 

Not for me:

(0) root /root_ aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files


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