Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist I ordered CD-ROMs of Debian 3.0 off CheapBytes so I could install Debian without needing broadband (which I don't have access to at home over the summer).
I want to make my computer use the CD-ROMs for stable (so if I run apt-get install packagename/stable, it is loaded off the CD-ROMs), and use internet sources for Testing and Unstable. I plan to pin whichever of Stable and Testing is more convenient for me at any given time (in other words, I plan to pin stable until I have DSL in my apartment in Davis and then to pin testing) Unfortunately when the installer or apt-cdrom created entries in my /etc/apt/sources.list, the CDrom entries were listed not as "stable" but as "unstable" (they're both the same packages - stable and unstable are both symlinks to woody on the CDs), but I am afraid that this would get in my way of using `apt-get install package/preffered-distribution` to install new packages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable non-free contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable contrib main non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free Could you fix the package so it allows me to choose a different branch name like "stable" or "woody"? -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux cat-in-the-hat.ucdavis.edu 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
