[plug] apt-get dist-upgrade -t sarge installs stuff from sid

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:48:01PM +0800, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:35:27PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > I just started to update a machine to the recently released sarge with
> > "apt-get dist-upgrade -t sarge -ud"
> 
> Sounds like you may have some odd preferences set somewhere.
> 
> My suggestion would be to follow this exactly:
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> 
> aptitude is the preferred method for upgrade, rather than apt-get.
> 
> If you're having problems with sid, comment out all your non-sarge
> sources and delete (rename) /etc/apt/preferences until after you
> upgrade.

The problem turned out to be that I didn't have a preferences file at
all.  So creating one with appropriate contents made apt do what I
wanted.

Thanks for your suggestions.




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Russell Steicke

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