On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 10:41 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 13:05, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:46PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > You should take a look at my sources.list > > > > > > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list > > > > > > [qoute from above link] > > > # COMMENTS: > > > # Do not forget to put in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > > # > > > # APT::Default-Release "<version>"; > > > # APT::Cache-Limit 18000000; > > > # > > > # Else you'll never be able to parse all of these > > > # > > > # version can be: woody, sarge, etch, sid, > > > # oldstable, stable, testing, > > > # unstable or experimental > > > # > > > [/qoute] > > > > > > The APT-HOWTO doesn't mention code-names for the 'Default-Release' > > > option and my experiments suggest they don't work at all. > > > > Hmm, unless you have the the sources labeled as them... > > > > IOW like this: > > > > ## Old Stable - Debian (currently Woody) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > > > ## Stable - Debian (currently Sarge) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free > > > > ## Testing - Debian (currently Etch) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free > > > > ## Unstable - Debian (always SID, or Still In Developement) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > > > > Then they do work. And I just tested it here on the very machine I am > > typing from... and it does work with the release labels. Perhaps I > > should make a second sources.list this way. To remove any confusion. > > > why do you put a '#' sign in front of each entry? Because they are disabled by default. If you read the entire original link you'll see I say to enable only the ones you need. Why would I un-comment them all by default. It would seriously cause problems. It would cause many people to upgrade to Sid or Experimental if they didn't have a proper apt.conf -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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