Bug#32918: marked as done (apt: misleading sources.list man page, on "preferred sources")
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:42:28 +0100 (CET)
From: A Mennucc1 <sysman@Tonelli.sns.it>
Subject: apt: misleading sources.list man page, on "preferred sources"
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hi
the man page says:
It is important to list sources in order of preference,
with the most preferred source listed first. Typically
this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slow
est (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local network, followed
by distant Internet hosts, for example).
Now, I would like to do what 22551@bugs.debian.org says
(at least, this is what I understand from 22551):
> It would be very nice if there was some way that I can arrange my
> /etc/apt/sources.list so that it picks up a file from a distribution
> if and only if that file does not exist in the other distributions.
More precisely, I would like that if
there is a stable version of a package
and there is a unstable (or, frozen) version of a package,
then the stable version of the package be preferred;
so when I read "the most preferred source listed first"
I built the sources.list that you see below;
instead, apt-get now wants to upgrade all and every package that
I have!
thanks
a.m.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux Tonelli 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries
ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-4 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/debian dists/proposed-updates/
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
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