On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:07:24AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade > from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to > replace the lines for stable with: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > but this will also get packages from unstable, which I would prefer not > to do at this time. If I do make these changes and do an 'apt-get > update/upgrade' then apt wants to upgrade 188 packages on my box, add 40 > some packages and delete 11 packages. If I only have the line for > testing in my sources.list then 'upgrade' only wants to change 7 > packages and 'dist-upgrade' also updates only 7 packages and wants to > delete 3 others. There is much that simply does not exist in testing > that is in stable and unstable. I thought that testing was a complete > set of packages, but this does not seem to be the case. Can anyone > explain exactly the way packages flow through the system, including when > a new release becomes stable? >
You really could have started another string here. Anyway your questions are answered at - http://www.debian.org/releases/ kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
