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Author: Anto
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Subject: Re: [Dng] OT: How do I keep my Wheezy from upgrading itself to Jessie?

On 28/04/15 15:45, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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


Perhaps it would be like squeeze-lts, i.e. "deb
http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main non-free contrib". So we
would have to add similar entry into /etc/apt/source.list for wheezy-lts.

Cheers,

Anto