Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: > > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the > > stable > > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > > non-commented > > appearances of

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 06/01/2011 04:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do anything else? Is this

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 2, 2011 2:19 PM, "William Hopkins" wrote: > > On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > > > before your next distri

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/02/11 at 02:08pm, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > > > oddly en

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > > oddly enough > > Oddly ? It's another of the strange idioms

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:07:40 -0400, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the > stable release independent of what the release is called. That seems a contradictory selection of words :-) Stable is _now_ squeeze but it will be wheezy as soon as

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:07:40AM +0100, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Erwan David
On 02/06/11 01:07, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do > anything else? Is t

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > You're much better off simply changing sources.list right > before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends, > oddly enough Oddly ? The recommended upgrade path described in the Release notes is usually more complex than just running "apt-get upd

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do > anything else? Is

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread John Hasler
R. Clayton writes: > Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually stable system? Probably not (though I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve). When the next release occurs the "stable" link will be abruptly changed to point to Wheezy (which is now "testing"). Squeeze will th

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-01 Thread shawn wilson
Yes that's all. On Jun 1, 2011 7:15 PM, "R. Clayton" wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do >