Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:39:56 +0200
Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch
> >> was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge
> >> repository?
> >
> > Good luck, Christian (the site owner) already removed it. No
> > backups.
>
> However, from
>
> <-------------
> $aptitude show acroread
> Package: acroread
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 7.0.9-0.2sarge1
> <-------------
>
> I gather, that at least some of the files in 'stable' apply to sarge.
> I just edited my apt-sources.list, changed 'sarge' to 'stable' and
> installed acroread on a sarge box, and it just works (TM).
>
> HTH,
>
> Johannes
>
>
Beware of upgrades, though. When lenny goes through a major transition
(as it surely will), those packages are likely to break when used in
etch.
--
Liam
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