On Lu, 20 dec 10, 14:41:48, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:17:06 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > 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
Yes, but oldstable is supported only for one year after the release or until the next release (whichever comes first, as the Security Team can not support 3 releases at the same time). After that it will be moved to archive.debian.org, so one needs to re-adjust sources.list Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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