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February 18th, 2012 - 11:40 am ET by Csanyi Pal | Report spam
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Hi,

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system.

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

So it seems that this a mixed system, right?

What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and
after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'?

Can I mess up my system in this way?

Regards from Pal


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#1 Sven Joachim
February 18th, 2012 - 12:00 pm ET | Report spam
On 2012-02-18 17:37 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system.

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

So it seems that this a mixed system, right?



This depends on your apt preferences. By default, you're getting all
packages from sid except those which only exist in wheezy, so there is
little difference to a pure sid system.

What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and
after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'?



You may have a few more obsolete packages, and if apt currently prefers
testing, you would be upgrading your system to sid.

Can I mess up my system in this way?



Possibly. What does "apt-cache policy" print?

Sven


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