On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:17:06 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <aanlktin5-x9wz731nxncmgunzjsyvqycfspxmmraa...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark > wrote: >>I am giving my parents a laptop for Christmas this year that I put Lenny >>on and as I'm on the other side of the country, want to make sure they >>stay on Lenny until I am home in the future to upgrade to Squeeze after >>it officially becomes the Stable release. I've seen some emails about >>using "Lenny" instead of "stable" in the /etc/apt/sources.list to force >>aptitude to keep a Lenny system. Is this the official/accepted method? > > This will work for a while, but eventually the 'lenny' directory will be > moved off the main mirror system onto the archives and the 'oldstable -> > lenny' will be updated.
Do you mean that there is no way to keep the same name for the time it lasts a release? I thought "lenny" repo would automatically point to "oldstable" when squeeze is released, that is, no manual intervention required from user's side :-? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOldStable Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.20.14.41...@gmail.com
