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Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list

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On 6/12/2018 9:15 PM, murtaugh@stat.orst.edu wrote:
> I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file, 
> which now looks like this:
> 
>     deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
>     deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
> 
>     deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
>     contrib non-free
>     deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates
>     main contrib non-free
> 
>     deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib
>     non-free
>     deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
>     contrib non-free
> 
>     # my bad:
>     deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>     deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> I have read that it's difficult or impossible to revert to 'stable' once 
> 'testing' packages have been installed. I have also read that it's not a 
> good idea to have both 'stable' and 'testing' repositories in 
> 'sources.list', 

If you want to be able to install packages from the testing repositories 
while being on stable you should realy have a look at 'apt-pinning':

https://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

If you install packages from testing while being on stable be warned 
about possible dependencies issues!

-- 
John Doe

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combining stable and testing in sources.list murtaugh@stat.orst.edu - 2018-06-12 21:40 +0200
  Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2018-06-12 23:40 +0200
  Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-06-13 10:20 +0200
    Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-06-13 14:00 +0200
      Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-06-13 14:10 +0200
        Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-06-13 14:10 +0200
          Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-06-13 14:20 +0200

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