[CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian

[Randy Arabie]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> I am have a really hard time figuring out how the heck you got into this
> situation.  Are you sure all of your lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
> point to Stable?  There are no other terms in there (like unstalbe,
> woody, sid, etc...).  Resolving these kind of problems can be a serious
> PITA.  But in my 3 years of using Debian, I have never had one of these
> issues with Stable, it has always been with Unstable.  You would need to
> resort to using dpkg, withe --force-* options.  But be very carefull.
> Have you invested so much that you can't start over?  It really sounds
> like somehow your distribution got switched to Unstable.

This is my current version:

<paste>

#Copyright(c) 2001 by Danny Rodriguez
#
# The following site was benchmarked at 17.69 kB/s
deb ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/debian/ stable main

# The following site was benchmarked at 17.45 kB/s
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable contrib

# The following site was benchmarked at 17.32 kB/s
deb ftp://ftp.rediris.es/debian/ stable non-free

###########################################################################
# Below are sites you may want to consider adding but are commented out
#
# -----[ Uncomment below for HELIX CODE site (GNOME) ]-----
# deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main
# -----[ Uncomment below for KDE site (& Kdevelop)   ]-----
# deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps
# -----[ Uncomment below for debian security         ]-----
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

</paste>

And, I still have the original, which looks the same expect there is only 
site that I configured during the initial setup menu via the debian installer.
Here is the only entry in that old file:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

I've installed the matching libc6-dev package.  I'll see how that works out.

Thanks Tim.
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Randy