Brian Bennett wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Wulfy wrote:Brian Bennett wrote:I'm trying to understand how apt-setup works. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I have a very large install base of Debian Sarge built from testing installer discs. The problem that I am having is that after converting my PC (my first and foremost testing box) to Sarge stable (I even downgraded over 100 packages to become purely stable) apt-setup still insists on giving me testing sources. I've been building servers looking forward to the Sarge release, and now that it's out I want to keep them all at stable. If we hire a new admin in 6 months and he uses apt- setup to get a different mirror I don't want it to be testing.Silly question from a newbie:Did you check your sources.list? Are they pointing at sarge, stable or testing?Silly question from someone who didn't bother to read the question. I know how to edit the sources by hand. I don't need or use apt-setup myself. I've probably been using Debian a lot longer than you have.
I read the question alright. You said: "I have a very large install base of Debian Sarge built from testing installer discs" which, in my *very* limited experience (yes, I'm a newbie, as I said), puts "testing" lines in sources.list. Sometimes, the obvious is overlooked by the experienced *because* they've been doing it so long.
What I want is to prevent other more junior sysadmins from making a big mistake. I can do this one of two ways. One is to either fix apt-setup so it operates properly, or chmod -x and chattr -i apt- setup, or just rm -f apt-setup altogether. I'd rather do the first of those three.So, let me restate this. In order to prevent others from accidentally adding a testing apt source into my farm of 100 servers how can I fix apt-setup so it actually does what it's supposed to do?Please don't tell me to edit the sources by hand. That is not what I want to do.Just to clarify for anybody stupid enough to tell me to edit the sources by hand:1. I know how to edit it by hand 2. I have done so on many occasions 3. If you're not going to answer my question, don't bother responding4. Unless someone out there actually knows why this is happening I'll file a bug report on the apt-setup brain damagery.
I just want to thank you for equating my desire to help with stupidity. Way to go to encourage new people to participate and learn in Debian!!!
Oh, and in case I didn't mention it already, I know I could just edit my sources.list by hand, but someday someone might not do that, and it's that someday and someone that I want to be safe from. So yea, I want to fix apt-setup, not sources.list. Are we crystal?I don't mean to be so belligerent, but I was hoping that people would actually think I meant what I said.
Let's hope someone more experienced than I am can get past your belligerence and and not answer in a "stupid" way.
- -- Brian Bennett
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