[vox-tech] apt-cdrom makes entries for unstable

Ken Bloom vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:08:20 -0700


I ordered CD-ROMs of Debian 3.0 off CheapBytes so I could install Debian 
without needing broadband (which I don't have access to at home over the 
summer).

I want to make my computer use the CD-ROMs for stable (so if I run 
apt-get install packagename/stable, it is loaded off the CD-ROMs), and 
use internet sources for Testing and Unstable. I plan to pin whichever 
of Stable and Testing is more convenient for me at any given time (in 
other words, I plan to pin stable until I have DSL in my apartment in 
Davis and then to pin testing)

Unfortunately when the installer or apt-cdrom created entries in my 
/etc/apt/sources.list, the CDrom entries were listed not as "stable" but 
as "unstable" (they're both the same packages - stable and unstable are 
both symlinks to woody on the CDs), but I am afraid that this would get 
in my way of using `apt-get install package/preffered-distribution` to 
install new packages.

[bloom@cat-in-the-hat ~]% cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 
(20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable contrib main non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main 
contrib non-free



How can I make the CD-ROM entries appear as stable? If I try editing 
sources.list to change the name, I end up breking my ability to get 
packages from the CD-ROMs, even if I run apt-get update.