On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:32:09PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:17:58PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > > More significantly, I suspect that the potato line above is entirely > > superfluous. When apt goes to install something, it grabs the most recent > > version available, based on version number. Testing is always at least as > > recent as (and usually more recent than) stable, so I suspect that the above > > configuration is effectively equivalent to listing only woody, except that > > it > > makes you download more package listings. > > Well, here's a reason: > > I just installed potato on a laptap, then switched to woody in > sources/list and did dist-upgrade. Then I went to install emacs19 but it's > not in woody. So I added the potato line and then installed emacs19. I > have tons of emacs19 custom lisp that I haven't ported to emacs20 yet.
so when a package has become extinct (not present in woody, for example) you manage to get a legacy copy from potato. i'm just saying -- when smoething breaks, be not surprised, complain not, frown not. -- does a brain cell think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
