On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Anto wrote:
> On 28/04/15 15:30, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:27:57AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>While I wait for Dng to mature and become my daily driver OS, I'm
> >>continuing to limp along on Debian Wheezy initted by sysvinit. What I
> >>want to make sure of is that when I run apt-get update & apt-get
> >>upgrade that my computer doesn't try to convert itself to Jessie,
> >>because then I'd face a situation where I'd need to shut down my
> >>business and immediately convert to Manjaro OpenRC edition. I'd rather
> >>make an orderly transition to Dng, on my own timetable.
> >>
> >>So, anyone know how to prevent my Wheezy box from converting itself to
> >>Jessie?
> >You edit /etc/apt/sources.lst and change *every* mention of
> >'stable' to 'wheezy'.
> >
> >Do not do upgrades of any kind until you've made these changes.
> >
> >-- hendrik
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> Yes, as Hendrik wrote, I thought it is quite obvious that you should
> not use any other repositories a part from wheezy if you would like
> to stay on wheezy.
>
> I used wheezy-backports as well until a few weeks ago. But after I
> downgraded all packages to wheezy, I use only the following
> repositories on my /etc/apt/source.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

There's been some talk about wheezy maybe getting long-term support.
I don't know what that would mean for the sources.lst file. Possibly
nothing.

-- hendrik