severity 211802 wishlist merge 211802 137433 thanks On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:28:24PM +0200, Anton Hattendorf wrote:
> I'm using woody. But sometimes I want to install a package which is not > available for woody, I've added sarge and sid sources to my sources.list > an created an apt.conf containing this line: > APT::Default-Release "woody" > > When I tried to upgrade my system apt wants to upgrade more than 200 > packages. My system had been upgraded about five minutes ago so thought > this cannot be OK and abroted. > After a some googleing I recognized that everyone uses "stable" or > "testing" insted of "woody", "potato", "sarge". So I tried "stable" and > it works. > > Why does "woody" not work there? Using woody insted of stable works > everywhere else. All of the examples on the man page are "stable", "testing", "unstable", "2.1*", etc, so I think it's pretty clear on this point. It works this way because apt uses the information in the Release file, which (for woody) looks like this: Archive: stable Version: 3.0r1a Component: contrib Origin: Debian Label: Debian Architecture: source > I also tried > APT::Default-Release "nonexistent" > and the same happens. > > I think apt should output at least an error message if someone enters an > wrong Release. Merging. > At last: IMO woody is <> stable because if sarge will be realeased, stable > will point to sarge and all systems will be updated. So saying using > "stable" as Default-Realease is not an satisfying solution. Use "3.0*" if you want that. -- - mdz
