Re: keeping woody

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik_at_pooq.com)
Date: 09/28/04

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    Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:45:32 -0400
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    On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:52:47AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
    > Incoming from Clive Menzies:
    > > On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote:
    > > > Incoming from Clive Menzies:
    > > > > On (28/09/04 05:57), hendrik@pooq.com wrote:
    > > > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the
    > > > > > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running
    > > > > > woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will
    > > > >
    > > > > In your /etc/apt/sources.list change references from "stable" to "woody"
    > > > > and then you will continue to track woody.
    > > >
    > > > ... Mostly. This trick doesn't appear to work here:
    > > >
    > > > # this works:
    > > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free
    > > >
    > > > # this doesn't:
    > > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free
    > >
    > > Ah! Well this does here:
    > > deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
    >
    > Not for me:
    >
    > (0) root /root_ aptitude update
    > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > Building Dependency Tree
    > Reading extended state information... Done
    > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_woody_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
    >

    I just took the *very helpful* advice I asked for and got this output.
    No problem! I just told aptitude to "u" (update), and it did. Package
    lists now up-to-date, and all is cool.\

    -- hendrik

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