Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
I've noticed that some debian sources use the term "stable",
others use the term "sarge". I was advised by some members of
our list that I should change "stable" to "sarge" to assure
continuity. But when I did that, Synaptic complained of errors.
Without the errors posted, it is tough for us to guess what the actual
problem is.
What happens when you find a source for certain applications, for
example, mplayer or whatever, that uses the term "sarge" instead
of "stable". Are you as the user allowed to change the word?
mplayer is not present in official debian packages. When you are
installing something from a third party all bets are off and the
following explanation wont apply. But I assume that you are using
mplayer just to drive down your point.
There are two scenarios.
1) A machine which has stable in sources.list does not mean that it is
running sarge. It could still be running woody (previous stable version)
if it has not been updated after sarge release.
2) assuming that a machine has stable in sources.list and has been kept
uptodate then we can say that sarge and stable can be interchanged in
sources.list until there is a new release.
You are allowed to change the word in sources.list provided you have
right permissions. Normal users probably cannot change that.
Aren't "stable" and "sarge" interchangeable in apt-get/synaptic?
For a machine that has been kept uptodate, the answer is yes.
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
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