Apt source list change?

Ossama Othman

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Oct 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/20/98

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Hi,

I just checked my /etc/apt/sources.list and noticed that it has the stable
dist directories but I changed them to "unstable" some time ago. Did the
apt-0.1.7 default source list change?

-Ossama

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Jules Bean

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Oct 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/20/98

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--On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 1:17 pm -0400 "Ossama Othman"
<oth...@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I just checked my /etc/apt/sources.list and noticed that it has the stable
> dist directories but I changed them to "unstable" some time ago. Did the
> apt-0.1.7 default source list change?

sources.list is a conffile. They did change it, but dpkg should have asked
you if you wanted to keep your version...

Jules

Ossama Othman

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Oct 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/20/98

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> sources.list is a conffile. They did change it, but dpkg should have asked
> you if you wanted to keep your version...

dpkg did ask me if I wanted to change it. I answered "yes" since I
assumed that the default sources.list would point to "unstable" since apt
itself is in "unstable." Well this certainly explains why I had a bunch
of broken dependencies. :)

Thanks,

-Ossama
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Jules Bean

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--On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 1:24 pm -0400 "Ossama Othman"
<oth...@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote:

>> sources.list is a conffile. They did change it, but dpkg should have
asked
>> you if you wanted to keep your version...
>
> dpkg did ask me if I wanted to change it. I answered "yes" since I
> assumed that the default sources.list would point to "unstable" since apt
> itself is in "unstable." Well this certainly explains why I had a bunch
> of broken dependencies. :)

:)

I'm guessing that they changed it for the freeze - so it releases into
stable in a way which works for people...

Jules

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Ben Gertzfield

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>>>>> "Jules" == Jules Bean <jm...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:

Jules> sources.list is a conffile. They did change it, but dpkg
Jules> should have asked you if you wanted to keep your version...

Ossama> dpkg did ask me if I wanted to change it. I answered
Ossama> "yes" since I assumed that the default sources.list would
Ossama> point to "unstable" since apt itself is in "unstable."
Ossama> Well this certainly explains why I had a bunch of broken
Ossama> dependencies. :)

Jules> I'm guessing that they changed it for the freeze - so it
Jules> releases into stable in a way which works for people...

Yes, that's exactly what I did. :)

Ben

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Jason Gunthorpe

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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:

> I just checked my /etc/apt/sources.list and noticed that it has the stable
> dist directories but I changed them to "unstable" some time ago. Did the
> apt-0.1.7 default source list change?

From now on the sourcelist conf file shipped with APT will always have
stable listed as the distribution.

Jason