On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 07:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:48 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:04:46PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > You should take a look at my sources.list > > > > > > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list > > > > > > [qoute from above link] > > > # COMMENTS: > > > # Do not forget to put in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > > # > > > # APT::Default-Release "<version>"; > > > # APT::Cache-Limit 18000000; > > > # > > > # Else you'll never be able to parse all of these > > > # > > > # version can be: woody, sarge, etch, sid, > > > # oldstable, stable, testing, > > > # unstable or experimental > > > # > > > [/qoute] > > > > > > The APT-HOWTO doesn't mention code-names for the 'Default-Release' > > > option and my experiments suggest they don't work at all. > > > > Hmm, unless you have the the sources labeled as them... > > > > IOW like this: > > > > ## Old Stable - Debian (currently Woody) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > > > ## Stable - Debian (currently Sarge) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free > > > > ## Testing - Debian (currently Etch) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free > > > > ## Unstable - Debian (always SID, or Still In Developement) > > #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > > #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > > > > Then they do work. And I just tested it here on the very machine I am > > typing from... and it does work with the release labels. Perhaps I > > should make a second sources.list this way. To remove any confusion. > > How did you test? I used 'apt-cache policy' after each change. When I > used codenames it was like the entry never existed. Here: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental/main Packages
release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=experimental,l=Unofficial
Multimedia Packages,c=main
origin www.debian-multimedia.org
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages
release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=unstable,l=Unofficial
Multimedia Packages,c=main
origin www.debian-multimedia.org
500 http://www.burtonini.com unstable/ Packages
release o=http://www.burtonini.com/,a=unstable,l=Ross Burton,c=
origin www.burtonini.com
500 http://kitenet.net unstable/ Packages
release o=Joey Hess,a=unstable,l=joey,c=
origin kitenet.net
1 http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.us.debian.org
1 http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.us.debian.org
1 http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.us.debian.org
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.us.debian.org
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.us.debian.org
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.us.debian.org
Pinned packages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "sid";
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Uncomment only those you want or need.
#
## Unstable - Debian (always SID, or Still In Developement)
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
## Experimental - Debian (always Experimental)
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib
non-free
## Joey Hess' ../bleedingedge before it's submitted to the archive
deb http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian/ unstable/
deb-src http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian/ unstable/
## Ross Burtonini's stuff
deb http://www.burtonini.com/debian/ unstable/
deb-src http://www.burtonini.com/debian/ unstable/
## Christian Marillat's stuff (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ for more info)
## uncomment one "deb" version and the deb-src (if you want the sources)
# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main
# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org experimental main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
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Hope that is enough of an explanation for you.
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greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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