Marty wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote:
Apt uses its default behavior if you don't have an apt.conf file. As
for version this default behavior is to update to the newest version
available.
It seems like you are referring to package version. I was referring to
Debian version, e.g. sarge, etch, stable, 3.1a0, etc.
I would say my Debian version is sarge because all the packages on my
system come from sarge (besides one, Octave, which is from unstable). I
seemed to missing something here. Are there files on your
system(besides user created) which aren't included in any package and
therefore don't have a package version? My understanding is that all
the files on the system are from packages (unless you installed packages
yourself) and therefore they all have a package version. So if your
sources.list points to stable and stable only, then all your packages
are from stable, and your Debian version is stable. I guess you could
define this differently, like what release a specific package comes from.
(see man apt_preferences) So if you don't have an apt.conf
file and you don't have a preferences file and you have multiple
versions specified in your sources.list then you will install/upgrade
from/to sid. (or the most recent version specified in sources.list)
On the other hand if you only specify one release in your
sources.list file (i.e. stable) then apt will install/upgrade from/to
stable because those will be the newest (and only) packages it knows
about.
So what you are saying is consistent with the others -- apt does not
"know"
or "care about" the "Debian version." I knew this to be true with dpkg,
but not apt.
This seems to be the case. Apt only cares about whats in the package
list, which is controlled by source.list. If there is more than one
version of a package in that list apt installs the most recent one by
default. Apt.conf and preferences override this behavior as outlined in
man_preferences
In a nut shell you can control your "version" with the
apt.conf/preferences files or by only downloading a package list from
a single release.
Once again it seems you are referring to package version here, unless I'm
missing something.
Yup, I was referring to package version but as a said above I see that
as being equivalent to Debian version
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