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
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