On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:13:23AM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:22:04PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:54, 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. > > > > Sarge *SUDDENLY* becoming Stable. Don't make me laugh. > > > > We aren't even into freeze yet. > > > > When that happens, then you should maybe worry about that. > > Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release > codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont > know but I could imagine that the distribution specifier is just being > used to build up a pathname on the http/ftp server. So the question > would be if there is a policy that debian mirrors are required to > provide links/directories named after the release or if they only > need to have stable, testing and unstable?
You can safely use the codenames. > And Greg, please think of machines running for a long time and upgrading > automatically through a cronjob or something. I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do it; there are lots of ways it can break. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]