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Re: smooth upgrades



On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:23:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:56:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:42:33AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:14:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > 
> > > > you'll have to check the version numbers of a few things. I don't know
> > > > how apt behaves if you don't specify a default distribution when there
> > > > are multiple sources. for example, I have my apt_preferences set for
> > > > "sid" on this machine as follows:
> > > > 
> > > > APT::Default-Release "sid";
> > > > 
> > > > on another machine I have it set in apt.conf, which is probably
> > > > wrong. 
> > > 
> > > Actually that's the correct one.
> > 
> > yeah, I see that now.
> > 
> > > 
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version
> > > 
> > > And it also doesn't work with codenames.
> > 
> > that one is news to me. I certainly get no errors.
> 
> I know. I noticed that only because of changed behaviour. On a different
> machine I am running stable mixed with testing. When I set it up the
> first time I did it exactly as in the APT-HOWTO. Recently I was doing
> some changes and I changed "stable" to "sarge" and suddenly 'aptitude
> dist-upgrade' wanted to upgrade everything to testing, ignoring the
> Default-Release option. Or at least this is how I recall it. Can't test
> right now because the hdd is broken :(

well thanks for the heads up. I guess I've been fortunate enough to
not have multiple releases in sources.list, thus preventing the
problem.

good luck with that hdd

A

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