Bug#156739: apt: apt-cdrom has decided my CDs are "unstable"
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
I ordered CD-ROMs of Debian 3.0 off CheapBytes so I could install Debian
without needing broadband (which I don't have access to at home over the
summer).
I want to make my computer use the CD-ROMs for stable (so if I run
apt-get install packagename/stable, it is loaded off the CD-ROMs), and
use internet sources for Testing and Unstable. I plan to pin whichever
of Stable and Testing is more convenient for me at any given time (in
other words, I plan to pin stable until I have DSL in my apartment in
Davis and then to pin testing)
Unfortunately when the installer or apt-cdrom created entries in my
/etc/apt/sources.list, the CDrom entries were listed not as "stable" but
as "unstable" (they're both the same packages - stable and unstable are
both symlinks to woody on the CDs), but I am afraid that this would get
in my way of using `apt-get install package/preffered-distribution` to
install new packages.
[bloom@cat-in-the-hat ~]% cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable contrib main non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
Could you fix the package so it allows me to choose a different branch
name like "stable" or "woody"?
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux cat-in-the-hat.ucdavis.edu 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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