Re: Daily Updates
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:56:03PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> I know how to use APT, and I know exactly how to throw together
> sources.list. I've upgraded into Lenny purposely, but I'm wondering if
> there is some kind of reason it says SID when I get to the login screen
> (My /etc/issue says Debian Lenny/Sid).
>
> I wasn't asking for help on forming a sources.list file, I understand
> all of that. I was just wondering why the name had sid on it if I was
> running testing (As a rolling release, i.e. rolling right into Lenny
> from Etch).
/etc/issue is in the base-files package. Under certain conditions,
packages migrate from unstable to testing. On April 10 [1] it looks
like base-files migrated to testing, with the new "Lenny/sid" label [2].
Hope that helps.
Steven
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/base-files.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/base-files/news/20070403T100214Z.html
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