[Preston] debian newbie - correction

[Andrew King]

I said:

> Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list. Here's a sample file which, after 
> running apt-get update, should cause the system to know how to 
> retrieve packages stored in stable and testing on the primary UK 
> mirror. deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main
>
> deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main
>
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main
>
> #deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main
> #deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main 


Matthew told me a few weeks ago that this is a bad idea - apparently 
there should only ever be one of stable/testing/unstable in there, 
whereas I thought it was more of a cumulative thing when I made those 
notes.  So if you're using the above config file, you'd probably want to 
comment out two of the stable, testing and unstable lines.

Stable really seems to pay off in my experience BTW.  I've had that big 
problem with KDE, but other than that it's been very good - pretty 
exceptional I spose.  I literally have not have my system screw up on me 
once all year other than when I've been messing round with stuff I 
shouldn't have as root.  (Like once I wrote this program that lets a 
remote user connect to a specified port and blink a message full screen 
on my monitor to get attention - probably shouldn't post that though as 
it'll be a major security hazard - it even managed to crash his 
telnet.exe under Windows!  Let me know if you do want it...)

Andrew