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debian-user-digest DigestVolume 2003 : Issue 1041
Today's Topics:
Difference between "woody" and "stab [ Uwe Storbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
creating boot cds [ adit y [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: Official Exim 4 package [ Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: Official Exim 4 package [ Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
apt-get dist-upgrade bails[ Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
apt-get dist-upgrade bails[ Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: Problems with horde/imp [ UnKnown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: sylpheed-doc package broken? [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: name conflict: ud / ud-ldap [ Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: Newbee-ish X and root question[ Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks [ Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails[ Jonathan Matthews jaycee.removeifn ]
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails[ Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: sylpheed-doc package broken? [ Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: "Your Sexual Partner Will Not Kn [ "linux stuff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks [ Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:03:39 +0100
From: Uwe Storbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Difference between "woody" and "stable" in apt Default-Release?
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Hi,
I've just seen a somewhat irritating behaviour of apt-get
update/upgrade. Formerly I thought "woody" and "stable" are synonyms
for now because Woody is the current stable distribution.
I've set Default-Release to "stable" in apt.conf:
APT {
Get {
Fix-Broken "true";
Show-Upgraded "true";
Purge "true";
};
Default-Release "stable";
};
If I add woody-proposed-updates to my sources.list and do an upgrade
with apt-get update/upgrade the packages from proposed-updates won't
get installed:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# apt-show-versions -a -p logcheck
logcheck1.1.1-13.1 install ok installed
logcheck1.1.1-13.1 stable
logcheck1.1.1-13.5.woody.0 proposed-updates
logcheck/stable uptodate 1.1.1-13.1
If I change Default-Release to "woody" proposed-updates get installed
as expected.
So if I want proposed-updates I have to set Default-Release to "woody"
instead of "stable". Not just understandable, but as far as good.
If I additionally want to mix stable and testing releases and use apt
pinning things will be somewhat more complicated and don't work as
expected anymore.
My preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=woody-proposed-updates,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=sarge-proposed-updates,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 777
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing,o=Debian,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 700
If I set Default-Release to "stable" pinning works as expected, packages
will be installed from Woody by default. But as already written packages
from proposed-updates will not be installed on upgrades.
If I change Default-Release to "woody" to get the proposed-updates apt
tries to upgrade all my packages to testing on an apt-get upgrade run.
I've tried some variations in the preferences file with "woody" and
"sarge" instead of "stable" and "testing" but nothing works.
What am I doing wrong?
I want my system mostly be pinned to stable with proposed-updates
installed. Additionally I want to use a few packages from testing.
Regards
Uwe
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:54:50 -0800 (PST)
From: adit y [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: creating boot cds
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Hi,
Just trying to learn how to make bootable installation
cds. Boot cd's downloaded from the website work fine,
when i raw write partboot.img, partroot.img to a a 2
floppy disks and boot using floppies it works fine. if
i burn them to cd the system boots and looks like it
is asking for a second floppy which has the
partroot.img , if i use the floppy disk it works fine.
but why do i need to insert the second floppy, i
already have the partroot.img in the root directory .
some how the cd i burnt is not able to know that the
partroot.img image it is expecting is present in the
root directory.
it always stops at vfs: insert root
