Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

From: Oliver Elphick (olly_at_lfix.co.uk)
Date: 06/22/05

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    To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:40:01 +0100

    On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:06 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
    > Today, here at work, I was going to install bittorrent on ta
    > Debian system and I used dselect to list the packages in order to find
    > bittorrent. It found it and I started to install from there except I
    > saw that dselect was also going to whack about the same number of
    > packages here that it did when I was on my system at home. Both are
    > very stable woody-installed systems.

    Does your /etc/apt/sources.list reference woody or stable?

    They used to be the same, but now there is a new stable, sarge. So if
    you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as
    obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete
    upgrade (recommended!) using the instructions in the release notes at
    http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html

    Oliver Elphick 

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