Re: SID out of Date ??
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote:
| That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is
March is ancient in OSS terms.
| concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4
| stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will
Nope, I have woody on my box and X4 is really nice. I downloaded (via
apt-get) kernel 2.4 but I haven't installed it yet since I know it
will either work or fsck my modutils (which would make 2.2 unusable).
| need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL
| comes....so I am d/l all of SID to have for the next week or so.
| Does that sound like a good apporach, or am I goin overboard. I just
| dont want to find myself in search of Packages without any internet
| to get them with.
I'd recommend getting Potato CDs to install from. Then download the
packages you want, and any dependencies from woody to put on
removeable media (CD-R works fine, or zip disk, or move a hard drive,
whatever). packages.debian.org will list all the packages and the
dependencies each package has.
If you have a dial-up connection that you don't pay
per-[minute|byte|whatever] you can use it to download stuff overnight.
(I only have dial-up at the moment so that's what I do).
Point sources.lst to woody and
apt-get update
apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
YMMV on the dist-upgrade though. Several weeks ago I had no
show-stopper problems.
Getting every package is going overboard since, presumably, you don't
use every package. Just get the ones you need.
-D
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