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