At Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:35:09 +1000, Alex Sutcliffe wrote: > I'm running woody and installed from a cd set. For some time I have been > puzzled by the fact that my /apt/get/sources.list file lists the 3 cds I > have as unstable. This has puzzled me for a while since I thought that cds > were all stable. So I mounted one of the cds and looked at it. In the dists > directory there are three links - stable, testing, unstable - to the a > directory named woody which then has the directories contrib etc. > > So my question(s) is - can I just change the entries in my sources.list > file to stable? I have already suffered a mini disaster with apt so want to > be careful.
no. apt needs some special fiddling to properly know about cds; "apt-cdrom" does the necessary stuff. Manual fiddling is likely to not work. If it works fine currently, there is no reason to want to change it. I seem to remember a bug in the original Debian 3.0r0 cds, where they specified "Suite: unstable" in the dists/woody/Release file (or was it the dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release file?). It all looks ok on my Debian 3.0r1 cd here. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
