Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:07:59AM -0500, John W Foster wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:33 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: Okay. This is my sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib I updated my system 2 days back. inconsistant bottom posting removed:-) Please don't do this. If you want to have a stable system that stays 'stable' change etch to stable above, do apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade the system. No, as has been stated many times already, including in the post which you replied to but removed (why?), it is preferable to use the release code names. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
My confusion about lenny and sid
It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti Registered Linux User #474025
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
Kousik Maiti wrote: It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? what does this have to do with debian-live? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
Kousik Maiti wrote: It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? My theory is that your version was lenny/sid when lenny was testing. Lenny is *now* stable, but wasn't always. I think you should consider yourself sid. You may want to dist-upgrade to improve the consistency. Start by reviewing /etc/apt/sources.list. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
I run the command : #apt-show-versions It shows that all packages are stable and either uptodate or upgradeable . So can I assume that my OS is stable one??? On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Kousik Maiti wrote: It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? My theory is that your version was lenny/sid when lenny was testing. Lenny is *now* stable, but wasn't always. I think you should consider yourself sid. You may want to dist-upgrade to improve the consistency. Start by reviewing /etc/apt/sources.list. Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti Registered Linux User #474025
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
Kousik Maiti: It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. When did you do the last upgrade? What's in your sources.list? I have 5.0 on a lenny system and squeeze/sid on sid. The file belongs to the package base-files. Which version of base-files do you have installed (apt-cache-policy base-files)? As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? /etc/debian_version can only give you a rough idea about that. It is mostly meant for scripts. J. -- I am no longer prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
Okay. This is my sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib I updated my system 2 days back. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Kousik Maiti: It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It contains sid/lenny. When did you do the last upgrade? What's in your sources.list? I have 5.0 on a lenny system and squeeze/sid on sid. The file belongs to the package base-files. Which version of base-files do you have installed (apt-cache-policy base-files)? As I know that lenny is stable and sid is unstable . So my distributiion is stable or testing??? /etc/debian_version can only give you a rough idea about that. It is mostly meant for scripts. J. -- I am no longer prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknLUfsACgkQ+AfZydWK2znvnwCfcSm2bdbaQNVXTOxurP65F/Sq FkMAmgK3/B8beYBQssA52Gg6xnAytiXj =B+z1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti Registered Linux User #474025
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
Kousik Maiti wrote: Okay. This is my sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib I updated my system 2 days back. Slight problem there, where the reference of etch is correctly pointing to etch, the reference to 'stable' is now lenny, so it's a mixed system with old stable and stable. I would recommend always using the release code names in sources.list to avoid problem like this in the future. Daryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: My confusion about lenny and sid
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:33 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: Okay. This is my sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib I updated my system 2 days back. inconsistant bottom posting removed:-) If you want to have a stable system that stays 'stable' change etch to stable above, do apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade the system. Check it then, you should have all lenny/stable If you have any apps pinned, you will need to alter those for the version you want. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
