On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: | Hi, | | Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many | years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of | questions: | | 1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I | want to check that all of the packages on my system are from Sid, not | Potato.
Use 'dpkg -l' to see the versions of the installed packages. Then check on http://packages.debian.org and see which distribution(s) that version of that package is found in. Sid changes regularly so you might find that you have a package that isn't in any dists, if you haven't updated recently. | 6. What mailing list should questions like this go to? Is debian-user | for the stable release only, or all releases including Sid? This is the list. HTH, -D