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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
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
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).
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.
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