der.hans, I have always just done an upgrade and not a dist-upgrade. Should I do one now? Mark der.hans wrote: >Am 02. Jun, 2005 schwätzte Mark Phillips so: > > > >>I currently have Debian Sarge running on my laptop. It works very well. >> >> > >But, of course ;-). > > > >>I apt-get updates all the time and rarely does anything break. With >>Sarge moving into stable and unstable moving into testing, what should I do? >> >> > >Throw a party! > > > >>1. Stop apt-get update for awhile? How long? >>2. Change my sources.list to stable? When? >> >> > >I would suggest staying with Sarge unless you get to a point that you need >whatever follows. > >A way to do that as Sarge transitions from testing to stable is to point >at 'sarge' rather than 'testing'. > > > >>Will the new testing branch be really unstable for awhile, so it will >>create a lot of problems? >> >> > >Sarge wasn't, but it's generally better to stick with stable if you can. >That's especially true on something used under lots of conditions. > >Granted, I almost always run testing on my laptops :). > > > >>Do I have to do a dist-upgrade at some point to stay with testing? >> >> > >You should be doing dist-upgrades at least once in a while if you're >tracking testing or unstable. I do upgrade and dist-upgrade almost every >day on my testing machines. I seldom have problems. > > > >>Do I sound like Chicken Little? Argh...the distro is falling...the >>distro is falling! >> >> > >Actually, it's freezing :). > >ciao, > >der.hans > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss