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Philip Radford wrote: >> But don't add lenny or sid packages to an etch system unless you know >> what you are doing (eg backporting your self). Expect breakage if you >> do and if you point your source.lst at testing or unstable you will >> actually just end up upgrading your system to that version anyway. >> > > Hi Robin, > > This s in effect what I did without realising the consequences. I updated my > sources.list to reference unstable and a hell of a lot of packages were > downloaded and replaced so from what you've said, I'm now running unstable > (sid). > > I have the opton to reimage the server which is great in this situation. > > How do I access backports for etch? I presume I can modify the sources.list in > some way. > Can anyone edvise on this? > > Yes you need to specify a back port source not a general repository such as http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php (well the details are there) but don't add lenny or sid. Note if you specify stable and not etch you will transition to the new stable when it goes live. stable always points to the latest stable Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html