Re: smooth upgrades

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Monday 18 December 2006 11:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:59:26AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 November 2006 17:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> > > > I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system.
> > > > Testing is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular
> > > > example, because it will become stable soon.
> > >
> > > Upgrades in testing or unstable always risking breaking our system.
> > > Once testing is frozen, this possibility greatly diminishes as the
> > > threshold to introduce new packages into testing is very high. 
> > > However, right after release, testing can become a complete disaster
> > > for a month or so as all the packages that have accumulated in Sid
> > > start propogating into testing.  Unfortunately, propogations do not
> > > always come in the right order.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > -Roberto
> >
> > there are problems in my system from my last testing upgrade. Will these
> > go away once Etch becomes the stable distro?
>
> largely. Are you currently pointed at testing or at etch? If at
> testing, you might want to change to etch so you don't get caught out.
>
> my one etch server has really calmed down on the upgrades in the last
> couple weeks. Of course, there's not much on there (mail, imap,
> various shares, clamav and a couple others...).
>
> > also, what is the best way to find out when Etch has become stable?
>
> probably debian-announce.
>
> A
>
> > thanks,
> >
> > tom arnall
> > north spit, ca
> >
> > Make cyberspace pretty: stamp out curly brackets and semicolons.
> >
> > Relax: the tests extend the compiler.
> >


Andrew,

Thanks for getting back to me. By 'pointed at Etch', do you mean get rid of 
the 'testing' addresses and have only 'stable' in 'sources.list'? Hate being 
a nervous nelly, but it means a lot to me to get a solid os on my machine. I 
want to be able to promote linux among my friends, but can do this only if I 
can easily support them.

tom arnall