Which sources to use to remaster Knoppix 4.0.2?

[tr]

However, I'm still not sure why I have to go through all the steps to get apt-get to work even as stable. Unless I go through the steps of remming out testing and unstable, (while running apt-get update between each edit), it will not eventually work on stable for me.

Sorry but I don't catch what you mean. But there is still one thing to do which I do always before dist-upgrade to get system stay as stable as possbile. I change in /etc/apt/apt.cong the first line from testing to stable:

APT::Default-Release "sarge";

If you then want to get new KDE from experimental source somethimes you need to change default release to experimental temporarily and update only KDE packages. Same thing with some unstable packages. You can test the difference by using default releases sarge, etch, sid, experimental and see what happens

And sometimes you can't even upgrade without adding to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg a line:

force-overwrite

But your original question: Uncomment everyting else but stable from sources.list and change default-release in apt.conf from testing to sarge and you don't need to upgrade the whole KDE.


-tapsa-

[pau1knopp]

tapsa,

working perfectly now when i followed your last recommendation to modify apt.conf and sources.list.

thanks for getting me the answer i wanted i am now remastering with no issues.

best regards,

~pau1

[sakiZ]

I was having problems similar to the ones described above.

Then I discovered in Synaptic a menu option that lets me select the "stable" version of a software application as the preferred one.

This can be overridden with the force-package menu option for those packages that will let you try the testing versions without removing half of your installed programs.

sakiZ