from knoppix3.2 -> where?

[Howell Evans]

My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the debian
install you are running stable. You can confirm this by looking in
(atleast i assume its here) /etc/apt/sources.list. The lines will have
either stable, testing or unstaable near the end of the line.

cheers
-Howell

Richard Lyons wrote:

>I've installed Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26 which has kernel 2.4.21-xfs and
>KDE 3.1.1 (Debian/unstable release).
>Can anyone help me understand which flavour of debian I should be
>tracking and installing from? If I've understood this right, I need
>to alter the sources.list depending on whether I am working with
>unstable or testing (for example). Perhaps someone here knows which
>release the majority of the included packages came from? There are
>some packages I need to add, but I don't want to complicate things by
>mixing flavours accidentally.
>
>TIA
>
>
>

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[Carlos Sousa]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:32:42 -0400 Howell Evans wrote:

> My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the debian
> install you are running stable.

From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is rather tracking unstable.

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[Richard Lyons]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:32:42 -0400 Howell Evans wrote:

> > My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the
> > debian install you are running stable.

>
> From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is
> rather tracking unstable.

The sources.list provided with Knoppix include some stable, quite few
testing and some unstable URLs, so I guess I should comment some out.
I'm just not sure which...

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[Carlos Sousa]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:33:59 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote:

> > From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the OP is
> > rather tracking unstable.

>
> The sources.list provided with Knoppix include some stable, quite few
> testing and some unstable URLs,

Bit of a mess, then. Perhaps you should check /etc/apt/apt.conf for a
line containing the key "Default-Release" and its value, that would pin
the distribution. Also, is there a /etc/apt/preferences file?

> so I guess I should comment some out.
>
> I'm just not sure which...

If you don't mind the lack of security updates in "testing", then
perhaps you could pin it down in apt.conf (via Default-Release), comment
out the unstable URLs in sources.list and run 'dselect update'.

The slew of packages from unstable already on the system will remain
until new versions enter testing.

Or, depending on your Linux/Unix skills and self-confidence, just go
with unstable.

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[Peter S Galbraith]

Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> wrote:

> I've installed Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26 which has kernel 2.4.21-xfs and
> KDE 3.1.1 (Debian/unstable release).
> Can anyone help me understand which flavour of debian I should be
> tracking and installing from?

I did the same and am tracking unstable. I'm downloading 138 MB as I
write this.


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[Richard Lyons]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:26, Carlos Sousa wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:33:59 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote:

> > On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote:

> > > From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the
> > > OP is rather tracking unstable.

> >
> > The sources.list provided with Knoppix include some stable, quite
> > few testing and some unstable URLs,

>
> Bit of a mess, then. Perhaps you should check /etc/apt/apt.conf for
> a line containing the key "Default-Release" and its value, that
> would pin the distribution. Also, is there a /etc/apt/preferences
> file?

Thank you for the pointers. Default-Release is already there
(testing), so I shall take the path of "masterly inactivity" and let
it do what it does. I'll no doubt be back in tears when something
breaks...

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