[vox-tech] mixing potato and woody entries in apt sources.list

Doug Huckaba vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT)


I have been lurking on this list for a while and see a lot of discussion 
on apt-get. I have switched my main server to Debian and upgraded it to 
woody a few months ago. When I did I commented out the security.debian.org 
entries in sources.list because the lines referenced potato.

Will uncommenting these lines cause problems? What I'm wondering is if
there is a package released in the woody tree (please correct me if I get
the terms wrong) and then a different version released from the security
site, which would take precedence?

for example: application-1.0 is installed from potato, then the woody
dist-upgrade installs application-2.0, then application 1.5 is 'released'
from the security site for potato. Which is the last version installed? or 
does this even happen?

thanks for your time...
doug

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