On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > In looking at http://packages.debian.org, I seem to have many versions > from the unstable group. I have no idea how this happened. I did a > dist-upgrade Wednesday evening from potato to woody. Following is the > pertinent part of my sources.list: > > # debian sites > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
ooh. that sets my teeth on edge. you should pick WHICH you want (potato = well-tested, solid, STABLE; woody = avant-garde, tinkerings, incoming, new, probably works) and stay with that distribution. > However, I find myself with many packages (zlib1g-1:1.1.3-14, for example) > that are unstable (according to packages.debian.org). > > Can someone explain what's going on? I'm assuming the unstable packages > are sid and the testing packages are woody. Is this right? If so, is > packages.debian.org out of sync, or have I somehow ended up with a lot of > unstable stuff (and, if so, how)? http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames Currently, stable is a symlink to potato (i.e. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2) and unstable is a symlink to woody, which means that potato is the current stable distribution and woody is the current unstable distribution. since this doesn't mention 'testing' i'd bet it's a bit out-of-date, but you should get the idea. track stability via stable testing unstable (when a new stable arrives, you'll upgrade to it) ... or pick a snapshot (pkg versions and such) via slink potato woody SEE groups.yahoo.com/group/newbiedoc/files/apt-get-intro.html -- does a brain cell think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
