Logan Tygart wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:46 -0500, Sick Twist wrote:
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>>>From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>>>On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Logan Tygart wrote:
>>>
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>>>>On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 01:48 -0500, eben1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
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>>>Great, thanks. Through that I found (the seemingly excellent)
>>>http://apt-get.org/; the only thing I need to know to make it really useful
>>>is what do I do to make a woody/sarge/whatever repository accepted?
>>>
>>>
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>>It's generally not a good idea to mix versions. What you are talking about
>>is not only mixing versions, but mixing distributions (Debian & Ubuntu). If
>>you insist on doing so, read up on apt pinning. The file to modify for this
>>is /etc/apt/preferences.
>>
>>
>
>I agree with Jonathon's statement 100%. Mixing Debian repositories with
>Ubuntu is asking for trouble. But, to answer your question, the place
>to make the "repository accepted" is /etc/apt/sources.list. Then apt-get
>update and apt-get -u upgrade.
>
>I have never used Ubuntu, so YMMV. You might want to consult
>http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
>
>Logan
>
>
Ubuntu IS Debian, isn't it? What harm could possibly come of going to
the Debian repositories? I could understand not wanting to reference
Red Hat repositories, for example, on your Ubuntu system, but really?
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