Re: I really need some help here udev/hotplug/usb/usbmount etc etc.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:41:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:
Bob Hauck wrote:

I don't know. I got an installation CD from a friend, and just followed
it along. As far as I know that would always configure the system to
pull from stable.

That depends what the CD was. There are test releases of install CD's
floating around that will install testing. Perhaps you should ask your
friend what he actually gave you.

cat /etc/debian_version

Might be interesting too, but not definitive.


I am 99.99% certain that udev 0.093 was in stable.

You are 100% mistaken. I update weekly and udev hasn't stopped working
or complained about my kernel version and apt hasn't tried to pull a new
kernel.


It *isn't now*.

That's true.


Tell me how apt-get knows what to pull from and maybe it will shed light.

/etc/apt/sources.list


I have still got it on my system in .deb form, so if you want to tell me
how to see what's inside it, let me know.

2006-05-30 17:17 udev_0.093-1_i386.deb

That's the version from unstable (and probably testing too, I have not
checked). It also _isn't_ from backports.org or some other place that
provides updated packages for stable because it doesn't have a suffix on
the version.

To get a list of the contents of a deb:

dpkg -c <package-file>

To see what packages each version includes:

http://packages.debian.org/


tell me why 093 installed without error.

I don't know for sure. It shouldn't have. For one thing it depends on
a version of libc6 that is newer than the one stable shipped with, so it
should have complained about that at least. It also conflicts with
several things (hotplug, old versions of module-init-tools and hal) that
would be installed on stable, so that should have generated some noise.

Unless of course you're really running testing or unstable and don't
know it, which is seeming more and more likely.


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