On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:08, James Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the appropriate mailing list, please correct me if it is not. > > I recently, rather unthinkingly, added an "unstable" set to my apt sources > list. > The next time I ran dpkg it of course found a heap of "upgrades" and > proceeded to update my system with a large bunch of unstable packages. > > Luckily, thus far, the packages have caused no problem at all. As long as you don't have a mission-critical system, I would recommend running sarge/testing and just wait until the versioning has caught up with your installed set of packages. If you have problems, you can always try to downgrade just the offending package - but downgrading everything (especially libc) is probably more dangerous than just running the new version. Recommended read if you're dealing with this: the apt_preferences manpage. If you understand everything in there, you understand most of the Debian packaging system (from a users perspective, that is). I have, in /etc/apt/preferences: ------ Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 ------ and I have all stable, testing and unstable sources in my sources.list. Obviously, I run mostly run testing. As an addition, some people like having unstable at very low priorities (<100? or even <0? IIRC there's some magic value somewhere down there). cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys
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