Re: Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi:

On Monday 20 December 2010 15:17:06 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] AANLkTin5-x9Wz731nxNCMgUNZjSYvQYcfSpxmmRaaqdE@mail.gmail.com>, Mark 
wrote:
> >I am giving my parents a laptop for Christmas this year that I put Lenny
> > on and as I'm on the other side of the country, want to make sure they
> > stay on Lenny until I am home in the future to upgrade to Squeeze after
> > it officially becomes the Stable release.  I've seen some emails about
> > using "Lenny" instead of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.list to force
> > aptitude to keep a Lenny system.  Is this the official/accepted method?
>
> This will work for a while,

For a value of "a while" about a year.

Cheers.