Re: Need help from Debian pros!

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:
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>>I currently have Debian Sarge running on my laptop. It works very well.
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>But, of course ;-).
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>>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?
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>Throw a party!
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>>1. Stop apt-get update for awhile? How long?
>>2. Change my sources.list to stable? When?
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>I would suggest staying with Sarge unless you get to a point that you need
>whatever follows.
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>A way to do that as Sarge transitions from testing to stable is to point
>at 'sarge' rather than 'testing'.
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>>Will the new testing branch be really unstable for awhile, so it will
>>create a lot of problems?
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>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.
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>Granted, I almost always run testing on my laptops :).
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>>Do I have to do a dist-upgrade at some point to stay with testing?
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>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.
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>>Do I sound like Chicken Little? Argh...the distro is falling...the
>>distro is falling!
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>Actually, it's freezing :).
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>ciao,
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>der.hans
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