On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:20:46PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > > non-free > > > > This way you don't have to worry about it. > > I assume this works fine now, with apt, because I've seen a couple of > people recommend it, but there used to be a problem with this method > because the "Packages" file referred to the the "status" release name, > eg., stable, frozen, unstable, rather than the name. I know the > Packages file still does this, eg., > > Package: 3dchess > ... > Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/games/3dchess_0.8.1-4.deb > ^^^^^^ > > but perhaps apt-get can "figure it out"? Maybe the trouble I > experienced came before the apt-get days?
That I do not know, as I only recently switched to Debian (to be slightly more specific it was right after Slink became available on CD from the usual vendors - LinuxMall / CheapBytes as in). What I do know is the the two lines I quoted are the only active lines in my /etc/apt/sources.conf (IOW all other lines are comments) and it works just fine. When I first started with Debian, I did use dselect some. But since discovering apt I've not even touched dselect once. Definite kudos to the folks that developed / maintain apt. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.