Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-08 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure what you are asking here. The question: If a debian system records package information about a down-rev (later) distribution in its package database, is it possible to exclude packages existing solely in that down-rev distribution from the package

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-08 Thread john
Morgan Fletcher writes: What happened: I had a system pointing at unstable, then I realized that unstable is not slink, but rather potato. I didn't want a bleeding-edge distribution, so I pointed the system at slink (frozen). Now when I run dselect, there are potato-era packages listed that

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan Fletcher writes: What happened: I had a system pointing at unstable, then I realized that unstable is not slink, but rather potato. I didn't want a bleeding-edge distribution, so I pointed the system at slink (frozen). Now when I run dselect, there are

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-08 Thread Andrew R Wilson
- Original Message - From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, January 08, 1999 7:18 AM Subject: Re: Reduce scope to one distribution? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morgan Fletcher writes: What happened: I had a system pointing

Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-07 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink. So now dselect shows a bunch of packages that

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Morgan Fletcher wrote: I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink. So now dselect