Opps, When in doubt, I should read the man pages. Looks like apt will go through sources.list, and will install the package from the first source it finds. if I am reading "man sources.list" correctly :)
Bryan On 04-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote: > > On 04-Dec-1999 Bryan Scaringe wrote: >> I have seen many examples on this list of people putting entries in >> sources.list >> for both stable and unstable trees at the same time. How does apt/dselect >> handle this? Would an "apt-get upgrade" always pull from stable or >> unstable? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> Bryan > > I was just thinking about this last night, and it seems to me that to avoid > downgrading my system, it is better to explicitly have "potato" or "slink" or > whatever in my sources.list. After all, slink is always slink, but > "unstable" > can mean different things at different times. > > -- > Andrew