-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:32:34AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Sorry to say, I am giving up on this specific research project. > > I have about 32 VMs created (about 25 or so deleted too). Have been > madly installing, upgrading even downgrading. With various > configurations of apt.conf and sources.list. > > I scrounged up my full set of install disks for potato, woody and sarge. > I used net installs for etch and sid. I am completely whipped on this > research. It has taken 40+ hours of doing, installing, documenting, > logging, watching, recalling OLD ancient bugs, timelining everything and > sacrificing (goat blood in some cases, chicken blood in others) But I > still have not found any really consistent data to prove or disprove any > real information about how apt works with apt.conf in terms of > Default::Release. Some versions of apt recognize monikers like woody, > but not potato. Some only see testing, unstable, stable or experimental. > Some don't even recognize experimental. Hi Greg, it sounds like apt is behaving inconsistently wrt its recongnition of release names vs distro names. If you haven't filed a but, I guess that is the only thing to do. Sorry to hear about the other unfun things :-( here's to a better 2007. Cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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