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@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
There is a fourth criterion
; experimental : So unstable that unstable doesn't even want them. You have to get these packages from other apt repositories. They are labelled experiemental so you don't install them unless you __really really__ want to, and tell apt that with ''apt-get -t experimental package''.
-The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.0r3
, codenamed woody. It was released on October 26th
, 2004
. Check http://www.debian.org/releases/ to ensure it is still current, and if not, come back and edit the wiki so it is. The current testing distribution is sarge. Eventually, sarge will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), and then sarge will become stable
, woody will become an unsupported older distribution, and a new name will be picked for the new testing tree.
+The current (at time of writing) stable distribution of Debian is 3.0r4
, codenamed woody. It was released on January 1st
, 2005
. Check http://www.debian.org/releases/ to ensure it is still current, and if not, come back and edit the wiki so it is. The current testing distribution is sarge. Eventually, sarge will become stable (a FeatureFreeze will occur), woody will become an unsupported older distribution, and a new name will be picked for the new testing tree.
On a debian machine, you can find out the version number of the installed
distribution by looking in /etc/debian_version.
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@
#* apt-get install -t unstable [[packagename]
Some notes on the above.
-* When specifing
your default release it appears that you can only use "Stable"/"Testing"/"Unstable" don't try and use Woody/Sarge etc it won't work
+* When specifying
your default release it appears that you can only use "Stable"/"Testing"/"Unstable" don't try and use Woody/Sarge etc it won't work
* You can find out package versions at packages.debian.org
And this prompts a question unanswered everywhere I have looked: When sarge becomes "stable" how will I prevent my regular and automated executing of "apt-get dist-upgrade" updating all my packages to sarge? How does one configure apt to stay with woody given that default-release "woody" does not work? It seesm the way is this: Do not set default-release. In sources.list do not mention stable or testing but woody and sarge instead. In preferences pin 500 > woody > stable > sarge > testing > 100. Then when packages in sarge becomes marked stable packages in woody, also still stable, presumably will still be preferred. Does that work?
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