On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:22:18AM -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote: > I hope it's not too bad, but I've noticed my apt-get going to attain > .deb from Potato, yet I've upgraded to testing.
How do you know? did you run "apt-cache policy packagename" to see situation after running "apt-get update"? > Dselect goes to acquire from the proper directory (testing). My questions > are: > How does this happen? I guess you forget "apt-get update"? Or you have strange pin set in /etc/apt/preferences (see man apt_preferences) > How do I make sure both packaging tools, or all for that matter, are > acquiring from my designations and not past autoconfigurations? Edit all 3 files correctly by hand after reading man pages: /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/apt.conf > I've tried apt-config, but it goes for the higher levels in the > Debian directory tree, like contrib, main, non-US, etc. I need to > change its hunt before that like testing, unstable, and potato, etc. # apt-get install apt-howto/testing $ lynx http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ Also my memo: $ lynx http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-woody.html -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
