Re: Need help from Debian pros!

Top Page
Attachments:
Message as email
+ (text/plain)
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: der.hans
Date:  
To: PLUG
Subject: Re: Need help from Debian pros!
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
-- 
#  https://www.LuftHans.com/    http://www.AZOTO.org/
#  The only way for a woman to change a man
#  is if he's wearing Depends[TM] - der.hans
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - 
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss