A question about sources.list

michalng · 02-08-2011, 05:26 PM

I've been using Squeeze (testing) for the past years and /etc/apt/sources.list looks something like this

Quote:

deb http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

With Debian 6 coming out, I did an install (stable) to a new computer and noticed that there is a new item in /etc/apt/sources.list

Quote:

deb http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://some_mirror/Linux/Debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

Have I been missing the squeeze-updates in my sources.list all these years or is it something new.

AlucardZero · 02-08-2011, 05:35 PM

http://www.debian.org/releases/squee...stable-updates

New at time of release AFAIK

michalng · 02-14-2011, 05:14 PM

Was reading the blog/forum and noticed that for Testing, there is a line of someone's sourcelists (dated back to mid 2010)

Quote:

deb ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

This is something new to me, any idea what is testing-proposed-updates about?

AlucardZero · 02-14-2011, 05:34 PM

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers...kgs.html#t-p-u

michalng · 02-15-2011, 05:28 AM

Thanks for the link, read it and think I know what testing-proposed-updates is about.

However, I have been using Testing for the past few years and for my simple everyday use, Testing works fine without testing-proposed-updates.

So, just curious, does anyone here uses it and how it actually affects Testing?

jens · 02-15-2011, 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michalng

So, just curious, does anyone here uses it and how it actually affects Testing?

It doesn't (being new and empty).
It replaced Volatile (stable and old-stable):

Quote:

This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following criteria:

* The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security updates
will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples
include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
releases.
* The package in question is a data package and the data must be updated
in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).
* Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
video downloading tools and tor).
* Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).

http://lists.debian.org/debian-volat.../msg00000.html

"testing-proposed-updates" is no more than a proposition from maintainers to do same with testing when testing is frozen/broken.

michalng · 02-15-2011, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jens

.......
"testing-proposed-updates" is no more than a proposition from maintainers to do same with testing when testing is frozen/broken.

Currently I am not subscribing to testing-proposed-updates.

Does that means that if packages are uploaded there, my Testing installation will have a higher risk of breaking.

cynwulf · 02-16-2011, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michalng

Currently I am not subscribing to testing-proposed-updates.

Does that means that if packages are uploaded there, my Testing installation will have a higher risk of breaking.

Subscribing to testing-proposed-updates will conceivably make your system less stable. It also may be a means for you to get needed bugfix sooner. As with unstable it's a mixed bag.

craigevil · 02-20-2011, 05:59 PM

Debian -- The "proposed-updates" mechanism - http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates

Tada 2 second Google search.