[Eug-lug] setserial vs Ubuntu

[larry price]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>  I tried the install CD.  That wasn't recognized.
>
>  I don't understand why that line in /etc/apt/sources.list didn't
>  cause trouble with all the other "apt-get install"s I did.  And
>  that was a boatload of installs.
>
apt stores a list of packages and versions tied to sources.

it's supposed to favor local sources over remote sources unless the
remote version of the package is newer.

so if you installed a bunch of packages that were newer than what you
had on the original disk (or the supplementary disk that you didn't
even burn) it would load the new version of the package from over the
network. up until you got the one package that was current on your
installation media.