On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:26:39AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Installed a machine the other day with woody. Stable, no testing etc. > > Was using the same sources.list file that I have used in the past year > > or two. But with the big difference that I cannot find a later kernel > > version than 2.4.19 anylonger. Earlier, 2.4.24-1woody.1 have existed, > > but since the revision 2 and forward, they've not been marked woody. > > > > Simple question, why? Were they by mistake marked as stable, or? > > They weren't in stable but in stable-proposed-updates. >
Oh.. I guess you're right. *blushes* I actually had woody-proposed-updates in my sources.list.. My bad. > Stable-proposed-updates contains packages wich the maintainer proposes > for inclusion in the next stable point release, and the stable release > manager selects from them the packages which meet the criteria for > inclusion in stable. > > Completely new kernels have too many changes beyond security and > stability fixes, they will never go in a stable point release. The > maintainer shouldn't have uploaded them to stable-proposed-updates > in the first place. *nods* Makes sense. If I had better knowledge on what I get when doing an apt-get update, I'd not have the problem.. Ah well, we all learn. :-) > > If continuing on the same problem, is there somewhere information about > > all packages that have existed through-out the history? With all > > versions, revisions etc. > > http://snapshot.debian.net/ > Note that those kernels are not supported, they won't get security > updates, and may have known fatal bugs. Oh. I shall have a look there. I'm well aware of what gets security fixes etc. So that shouldn't be any problems. Anyway, thanks for pointing out what I had made wrong. With best regards, Roy 'Mooie' Sandgren. ---------------------------------------------------------------- M.Sc. Student @ Blekinge Institute of Technology Department of Technology Ronneby, Sweden. <URL:http://www.bth.se/> Cashier @ FUKT Computer Society Blekinge Institute of Technology Ronneby, Sweden. <URL:http://www.fukt.bth.se/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
