Re: keeping woody
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:52:47AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> 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
>
I just took the *very helpful* advice I asked for and got this output.
No problem! I just told aptitude to "u" (update), and it did. Package
lists now up-to-date, and all is cool.\
-- hendrik
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