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Re: smooth upgrades



On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable'
> > in sources.list once i've replaced 'testing' with 'etch'? or have the
> > ref's to 'stable' been ignored all along, beginning at the point where i
> > put the ref's to 'testing' in sources.list?
>
> ugh. that's another problem. what is the contents of apt.conf?

i have only '/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf'. content is:

	// $Id: apt.conf,v 1.43 1999/12/06 02:19:38 jgg Exp $
	/* This file is a sample configuration file with a few harmless sample 
   	options.   
	*/

	APT 
	{
	  // Options for apt-get
	  Get 
	  {
   	  Download-Only "false";
	  };

	};

	// Options for the downloading routines
	Acquire
	{
	  Retries "0";
	};

	// Things that effect the APT dselect method
	DSelect 
	{
	  Clean "auto";   // always|auto|prompt|never
	};

	DPkg 
	{
	  // Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
	  Options {"--force-overwrite";}
	}
	

>
> and how about uname -a?

debian:/etc/apt# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.16.4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Apr 16 06:39:49 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

>
> IOW, what are you currently running? just because you have both stable
> and testing in your sources.list doesn't mean you are necessarily
> running one or the other.
>
> If you are truly running testing, then you can comment out the stable
> lines. If you are running stable then the move to testing is a big one
> and not taken lightly.
>
> A


the content of sources.list btw is:

	deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian		\
		stable  	main	contrib 	non-free
	#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US	\
		stable/non-US	main	contrib 	non-free
	deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian		\
		etch 	main	contrib 	non-free
	#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian-non-US	\
		etch/non-US  main	contrib 	non-free

	#deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/	\
		stable  	main	non-free	contrib
	 deb http://security.debian.org/ 		\
	 	stable/updates 	main 	contrib 	non-free
	#deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/ 	\
		etch 	main 	non-free 	contrib
	 deb http://security.debian.org/ 		\
	 	etch/updates main 	contrib 	non-free

i replaced 'testing' with 'etch' today and haven't used apt-get since.

how do i tell which version (testing/stable) i'm running?

tom








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