Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal I am currently trying to allow for the ability to install packages from unstable on my woody system by using the -t option of apt-get. So to this end I put in sources.list entries that point unstable and I put in kodaira:/etc/apt# cat apt.conf // I want to keep the woody stuff but have the ability to download // stuff from unstable if I specify it on the command line of apt-get // The weird thing is if I put in the name woody and put in the // sources.list // names for unstable I get way more package, i.e. I am presumably // getting // files from unstable. In short the name woody is ignored APT::Default-Release "woody";
here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb ftp://debian30.math.uwaterloo.ca/debian woody main contrib non-free deb ftp://debian30.math.uwaterloo.ca/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free OK, now if one runs apt-get -u upgrade: kodaira:/etc/apt# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back debmirror dpkg gnome-terminal imagemagick libmagick5 libmng-dev libmng1 parted python-extclass r-base r-base-dev r-gnome r-mathlib r-recommended reportbug spamassassin The following packages will be upgraded <sniped list of packages> 257 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded. Need to get 181MB of archives. After unpacking 20.1MB will be used. In short I would imagine it is simply about to slurp in stuff from unstable even though I told it not to. Now on the other hand if I put the line APT::Default-Release "testing"; into /etc/apt/apt.conf then I get: apt-get -u upgrade: kodaira:/etc/apt# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back debmirror The following packages will be upgraded bind9-host dnsutils fai gnome-admin gnumeric libdns5 libisc4 liblwres1 nethack nethack-common nethack-x11 spamassassin squid squidclient sysvinit 15 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 6910kB of archives. After unpacking 1287kB will be used. which I assume is indeed getting upgrades from woody and security only. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kodaira.math 2.4.17mfcf-190402 #1 Fri Apr 19 14:11:08 EDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
