On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:38:33PM -0700, Ping Wing wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing > > for the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this > > cause trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new > > distribution when testing suddenly becomes stable. > > yes you can and imho it makse very much sense. as using 'stable' makes > no sense at all imho. > > frankly, the fact that debian puts 'stable' in source.list > automatically is littlebit scaring. For example when sarge is new > stable one day, and im doing another (semi-)automatic apt-get upgrade, > theres good chance that this messes some things up.
It's quite deliberate. Some day, woody won't be security-supported any more. > for example, lately i had woody running , nice and clean. > Now I put 'sarge' everywhere in source.list and did 'apt-get update && > apt-get -u dist-upgrade'. > > Now, packages did'nt get upgraded, but most of the packages were > removed. And I had only woody's official packages installed, no > selfmade. Did you file a bug, or report this anywhere? > there are more things in debian that are weird, like most /etc/init.d/ > scripts that doesnt give you any feedback (at least not to stdout) Every Debian init.d script that starts a daemon says something like "Starting web server: apache." -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]