debian sarge question

[Shane Wegner]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> hafve one problem: apt seems to have selected the stable distro as it's 
> source of packages even though I told it to use testing during the 
> install. I replaced stable with testing in /etc/apt/sources.list but now 
> it can't find the packages on ftp. does anyone know hwo to change this 
> and still have apt work?

Probably a bug in sources.list.  It should look something like this.
deb     http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src     http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb     http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src     http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

The deb-src lines aren't necessary unless you need apt-get
source to work.  Otherwise, remember to apt-get update
before apt-get dist-upgrade.

Hth,
Shane

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