On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 09:22:52PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > 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. > > More significantly, I suspect that the potato line above is entirely > superfluous. When apt goes to install something, it grabs the most recent > version available, based on version number. Testing is always at least as > recent as (and usually more recent than) stable, so I suspect that the above > configuration is effectively equivalent to listing only woody, except that it > makes you download more package listings.
Well, here's a reason: I just installed potato on a laptap, then switched to woody in sources/list and did dist-upgrade. Then I went to install emacs19 but it's not in woody. So I added the potato line and then installed emacs19. I have tons of emacs19 custom lisp that I haven't ported to emacs20 yet. ...RickM...
