transform old testing to stable?

mcs · 05-17-2007, 10:12 PM

Hello,

I have successfully upgraded a box from sarge to etch, no real problems there. However, I also have a machine that was testing before etch turned to stable and I really want to keep it at etch. If I do an upgrade now, I believe it will turn into testing?
I upgraded some packages and it already did. Has someone got an idea how to prevent this and maybe downgrade?
Cheers

MCS

vtel57 · 05-17-2007, 11:11 PM

It's already Etch! Just make sure all your repos are "stable" now and you should be fine. I did the same with my own testing Etch system. Works fine!

Code:

 $ cat /etc/*release

... should tell you "Debian 4.0".

mcs · 05-17-2007, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vtel57

It's already Etch! Just make sure all your repos are "stable" now and you should be fine. I did the same with my own testing Etch system. Works fine!

Code:

 $ cat /etc/*release

... should tell you "Debian 4.0".

Unfortunately this file does not exist!
In any case, I have now removed all references to testing in my sources.list and I only had a few upgrades when doing apt-get upgrade, which seems ok. Before there were masses
Thanks for your reply!
Cheers

MCS

vtel57 · 05-18-2007, 12:25 AM

Ooops! Typo...

Try:

Code:

 $ cat /etc/*-release

I forgot the hyphen in between * and release. Should work for you now.

lurko · 05-18-2007, 04:11 AM

it's /etc/debian_version on my Etch install, and it reads only '4.0'

if there was a file named xxwhateverxx-release in /etc, '$cat /etc/*release' would pick it up just as well as '$cat /etc/*-release' (the asterisk covers the hyphen too).

vtel57 · 05-18-2007, 10:47 AM

Yup! You're absolutely correct about the wildcard, lurko. So many distros on my system... I sometimes forget which methods work where, if you know what I mean.

Checking my Deb from Slackware:

Code:

root@ericsbane03:/home/vtel57# cat /mnt/etc/debian*
4.0

mcs · 05-18-2007, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lurko

it's /etc/debian_version on my Etch install, and it reads only '4.0'

Indeed.
Cheers

MCS