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Author: Steve Litt
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Subject: Re: [Dng] OT: How do I keep my Wheezy from upgrading itself to Jessie?
True, Linux O'Beardly,

Additionally, I think a lot of what's been said in this thread is a
clue that Wheezy is a lousy place to park our assets while waiting for
Devuan to become our daily driver platform.

At a minimum, I plan on dropping in an Epoch init on my Wheezy, so the
instant Debian says "oops, I'm sorry, I replaced your sysvinit with
systemd", I can say "oops, I'm sorry, I replaced your systemd with
Epoch.

But in the long run, I want a distro dedicated to never letting systemd
sneak back in, and that's Devuan, and it's worth waiting for.

SteveT

Steve Litt
April 2015 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
http://www.troubleshooters.com/28


On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:46:42 -0400
"Linux O'Beardly" <linux.obeardly@???> wrote:

> We should all keep in mind that not all repos have "wheezy" as an
> option; some only have stable/testing/unstable. That may prove
> troublesome for some of us in the future. My primary desktop has
> already been assimilated by the systemd collective. As soon as we
> get a stable image of Devuan running, I will rebuild my desktop for
> the first time in 4 years. Good luck!
>
> Linux O'Beardly
> @LinuxOBeardly
> http://o.beard.ly
> linux.obeardly@???
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Steve Litt
> <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:30:57 -0400
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> 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
> >
> > Hi Hendrik,
> >
> > It turns out that in my /etc/apt/sources.list (that's the exact
> > name of the file on my box) everything was already marked "wheezy"
> > instead of "stable" except:
> >
> > ==========================================
> > # ADDED BY SLITT FOR DOVECOT
> > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable dovecot
> > deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable dovecot
> > ==========================================
> >
> > I don't remember why I found it necessary to put those in for
> > Dovecot updates.
> >
> > Do you think I should I comment out those two deb statements, or
> > change "stable" to "wheezy" on both of them?
> >
> > Also, there was a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi.list, from a time
> > when I was experimenting with using jitsi as a substitute for
> > Skype. I'll be moving that file out of its directory, and not
> > experiment with jitsi until after I've left Debian completely.
> >
> > Thanks so much.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > April 2015 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
> >
> >
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