Re: [PLUG] how to know which debian

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 12:53, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> I have a machine where I don't trust /etc/apt/sources to be
> correct. (In other words, maybe it used to point to testing or
> unstable, but now it says stable, or maybe it hasn't been updated and
> upgraded in a long time.)
> 
> Is there an easy way to find out what I'm running?

Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and leave the browser on
that page.

Then:
# dpkg -l libc6

Find this version on the above web page. This is the version you are
running, for all intents and purposes. E.g. libc6 2.3.1-* would be
testing or unstable, and 2.2.5-* would be stable. Not exact, but if they
upgraded distro's and then put the sources.list back, this will tell you
the real deal. You cannot recover from upgrading libc6 without
rebuilding the machine, so this is a good litmus test.

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Tobias DiPasquale
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