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Re: aptitude failure to fetch



On Lu, 26 mar 12, 16:04:11, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:53:17PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Du, 25 mar 12, 05:44:13, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Okay, I found it was all "experimental" repos causing this.
> > 
> > This doesn't sound right, I'd be curios to see your sources.list before 
> > the change.
> 
> Here is my sources.list.
> You can see what I've commented out.
... 
> # deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports
> # main non-free contrib experimental
...
> # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze experimental
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates non-free
> contrib main 
> # experimental
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates non-free contrib main 
> # experimental

Yep, just as I expected :)

For your information (and the archives), experimental is a 
suite/version/release[1] not a component/area. A line for experimental 
looks like this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

Suits in Debian are oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental
and components/areas are main, contrib, non-free, but derivatives may 
have others. Very simply put, suits are about versions, components about 
types of software. Releases also have codenames (except experimental).

[1] experimental and unstable/sid are actually never released

Hope this explains,
Andrei
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