Re: Upgrade going to remove ALOT of packages. Why?

From: Rodney D. Myers (rdmyers_at_mtpalomar.net)
Date: 07/13/05

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    Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:00:18 -0700
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    On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:11:42 +0200
    Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:

    > Rodney D. Myers:
    > >
    > > I'm running Debian Sarge.
    >
    > Are you sure?

    # See sources.list(5) for more information

    #Debian
    deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib

    #Debian security updates
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

    deb http://mail.linuxvar.it/~gianluca/athlon-xp/ testing main
    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
    deb http://www.maretmanu.org/debian sarge main

    > > xserver-xorg install
    >
    > X.org is not part of the official sarge release which means you have
    > either unofficial backports or Debian testing/unstable in your
    > /etc/apt/sources.list (and didn't tell apt to ignore it). Please show
    > us the output of 'apt-cache policy xserver-xorg'.

    see above
     
    > # echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
    >
    > should make apt prefer stable package versions. You might already have
    > packages installed, which are not part of stable, though. Downgrading
    > is always an adventure.
    >

    I'll try that suggestion. 

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