On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:01:51AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> I kinda, sorta, almost, like the idea of forcing users to define their
> chosen distribution (potato, woody, sarge, etch) in their
> /etc/apt/apt.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /etc/apt/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x3 root root
Colin Ingram wrote:
> Colin wrote:
>> Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can
>> put
>> in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the
>> directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that
>> "testing" and "stable" are links to
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:01:51AM +, s. keeling wrote:
>
> I kinda, sorta, almost, like the idea of forcing users to define their
> chosen distribution (potato, woody, sarge, etch) in their
> /etc/apt/apt.conf
>
Elsewhere on this list I saw a suggestion that I think is a good, more
gentle w
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:06AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > David Jardine wrote:
> > > Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> > > by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
> >
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:57:56AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> > to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
>
> I am not a Debian developer. I am a user. But I know e
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> David Jardine wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >>>Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> >>>by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
> >>>want to move from sarge to etch autom
Colin wrote:
whole picture.
Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can put
in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the
directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that
"testing" and "stable" are links to names like
David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>>>Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
>>>by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
>>>want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid seems to be
>>>the on
On Friday 10 June 2005 13:37, Guillaume TESSIER was heard to say:
> Thanks Curt!
You're very welcome.
> I guess many users choose sarge testing cause woody was pretty
> outdated.
Yep. And they were warned, many times in many forums, that when Sarge
went "stable" then "testing" would be a nightm
Curt Howland wrote:
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is a good way for a lot of people, but maybe not for
newbies who think they can create a better way through the exercise
of pure rhetoric without benefit of experience.
Having been using Debian since 1995, I consider mys
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is a good way for a lot of people, but maybe not for
> newbies who think they can create a better way through the exercise
> of pure rhetoric without benefit of experience.
Having been using Debian since 1995, I consider myself to have some
benefit o
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
David Jardine wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
David Jardine wrote:
The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems to
have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
Not familiar with this enormous c
David Jardine wrote:
The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
want to mov
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:57:56AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
>
> Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> by sarge without his being ask
On Thursday June 9 2005 4:57 pm, David Jardine wrote:
> The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
>
> Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> by sarge without his being asked.
Then "s
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> David Jardine wrote:
> > The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> > to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
>
> Not familiar with this enormous confusion.
Well, I've seen seen some of y
David Jardine wrote:
> The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
Not familiar with this enormous confusion.
> Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> by sarge without his being ask
David Jardine wrote:
Wouldn't things work more smoothly if "stable" and "testing" were
not allowed in /etc/apt/sources.list or anywhere else except as
purely informative descriptions?
I think you mean the debian version as indicated in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
(As somebody else already pointed out
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