On Sb, 12 mar 11, 12:32:47, Aniruddha wrote: > I've collected some best practices for running Debian unstable, I'm > curious to hear what other Debian unstable users do to minimize > possible problems with running Debian unstable. My current list: Did you consider starting a wiki page about it? > * Install apt-listbugs Yes > * Install apt-listchanges Yes > * Check the ' Debian Weather' before dist-upgrades ( > http://edos.debian.net/weather/ ) Never done that > * Check 'Upgrade Warnings' in the aptosid forums before dist-upgrades What is aptosid? ;) * learn to use aptitude's interactive resolver. Don't even attempt to use sid unless you have reasonable knowledge of apt and basic Linux recovery skills * add testing to your sources.list for cases where a package was temporarily removed from unstable to unblock a transition * do not, repeat, do not (dist-)upgrade before some event[1] where you rely on some functionality of that machine. You might want to consider a parallel stable install, since this is what stable is for. [1] event can be an important presentation where suddenly your presentation software behaves unexpectedly or just a movie night with friend(s) where suddenly you can't watch the movie anymore. Bonus points if you tried to convince the same people to switch to Linux and/or Debian ;) * learn to use the BTS, searching/reading first and later reporting if you feel confident enough. apt-listbugs helps, but not always. * don't forget to restart (dist-)upgraded software[2] or even reboot periodically. If you (dist-)upgrade often but forget (or just postpone) restarts you might run into issues later which will be very difficult to track down, because too many packages have been upgraded in the meantime. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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