David Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 00:56, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
Debian newbie question.
If Unstable is more up to date than stable can I/how do I switch apt to
update from the newer archive ?
It is indeed more current, but obviously less stable. The easiest way to
switch is to edit your /etc/sources.list file and change every occurance of
"stable" to "unstable".
It's my understanding that you don't want to do this for the security
line; something to do with the way security patches are backported first
to stable and then later get implemented in unstable, or something similar.
I also have a vague understanding that you want both stable and unstable
listed, with the unstable lines appearing first (for priority);
otherwise, packages that aren't currently being worked on in unstable
but that have remained the same since stable won't be available for
installation. But again, don't take my word as gospel.
--
Kent
