Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You're much better off simply changing sources.list right before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, oddly enough Oddly ? The recommended upgrade path described in the Release notes is usually more complex than just running apt-get update

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Erwan David
On 02/06/11 01:07, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this the

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:07:40AM +0100, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:07:40 -0400, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. That seems a contradictory selection of words :-) Stable is _now_ squeeze but it will be wheezy as soon as

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You're much better off simply changing sources.list right before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, oddly enough Oddly ? It's another of the strange idioms of the

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You're much better off simply changing sources.list right before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, oddly enough

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 2:19 PM, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You're much better off simply changing sources.list right before your next

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 06/01/2011 04:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this the

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze

Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread R. Clayton
I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread shawn wilson
Yes that's all. On Jun 1, 2011 7:15 PM, R. Clayton rvclay...@verizon.net wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread John Hasler
R. Clayton writes: Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually stable system? Probably not (though I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve). When the next release occurs the stable link will be abruptly changed to point to Wheezy (which is now testing). Squeeze will then

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze with stable in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this