Re: Which linux flavor for amd64?
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com writes:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> "A.E.Lawrence" <A.E.Lawrence@lboro.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>> >>> 4. Install testing (etch) Debian which supposedly has internal
>> >>> amd64 support. Can DVDs/CDs be found?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> No DVD/CDs for testing. Netinstall cds exist, which can grab actual
>> >> needed packages from internet. Discs are usually only made near to
>> >> release time, which is at least 8 or 9 months away for etch
>> >> (testing).
>> >
>> > I have just done an etch amd64 install from DVD's built via jigdo
>> > (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/amd64/jigdo-dvd/).
>>
>> That's from amd64.debian.net and not Debian.
>
> Isn't that primarily a political/legal distinction? Isn't
> and64.debian.net where the AMD64 port for Debian was conceived and
> executed? Isn't it primarily a purely technical matter that Debian, not
> that it has accepted AMD64 into the fold, is letting its automated
> systems rebuild the entire AMD64 distribution rather than just taking it
> over from amd64.debian.net?
It isn't technical. We could easily have upoaded most packages from
amd64.debian.net to debian and rebuild the few packages not build by
the now official buildd admin.
But that is for sid. For etch it would have been nice to upload the
core packages from amd64.debian.net and then let britney sort out the
rest. The installability check britney does isn't present in
amd64.debian.net.
> It really isn't as if and64.debian.net is as incompatible as a
> Debian-derived distribution like Ubuntu, is it?
>
> Or have I badly misunderstood something and is there real cause for
> concern?
Mixing amd64.debian.net and debian.org packages should work. But can
you be sure? I bet there are a few freak bugs that only show up when
you mix the two repositories.
I recommend reinstalling every package when switching to debian.org
just to be on the save side.
MfG
Goswin
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