On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey <
> jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > >  Did you mean to drop debian-user?
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:29:55PM +0200, James Stuckey <
> > > jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > > > I have the nvidia drivers, among other packages, from Sid.
> > >
> > >   What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
> >
> > No I didn't, thanks.
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
> >
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
> > #deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
> >
> > #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
> > #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
> non-free
>
>   That's the problem -- you have no (active) "deb" lines for unstable,
> so apt doesn't know which packages are from it.
>
>  Daniel
>

The aptitude search ~Aunstable appears to just list all the packages in the
repository. As so with the other commands. The list of packages is so long
that gmail freezes when I try to past it in, and paste.debian.net tells me
that it is over 90kb and cannot be pasted.

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