RE: Unstable 'sid' release
Greetings,
Sarge/Testing doesn't offer any guarantees either. For about 3+ weeks
there php4 was not able to be installed due to dependencies and was
automatically removed with a dist-upgrade, which impeded a few things.
At the same time request-tracker was causing trouble as well, requiring
a bit of coding and extra config.
The trick seems to be take particular attention to when you update
(particularly with upgrade and dist-upgrade) and watch the bugs lists on
the debian website(the bugs lists occasionally solve or work around the
bug and not just highlight it). Perhaps you can have a sacrificial lamb
type arrangement where you can check any update before putting the
updates on your pride and joy. Install two instances of Sid/Unstable and
leap frog the updates over each so that there is always at least one
'good' instance.
But ultimately you don't really feel alive unless you're facing a little
bit of danger. Plus it's a bloody good way to learn a few new tricks
when you have to scramble to fix a broken package. If it doesn't go
smoothly then there's always the grin and bare it approach until the
offending package is up and running again.
Matt
Enjoy!
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Lyra [mailto:lyra@pop-pr.rnp.br]
Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 1:09 AM
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unstable 'sid' release
Hi,
I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq
1200 notebook. It's nice to have the last version of packages, but I got
in trouble a few times. For example, I did a upgrade yesterday, and
found that the libxft2 seems to be broken, so my kdm is unusable and
everything that uses xft2 to render fonts looks very ugly. I know that
in a week this must be solved, but be warned that things can go wrong
when apt-get upgrade. You should consider to use testing as this seems
to be more stable but yet has almost all the new packages. This is the
price to live on a the edge :-)
Christian Lyra
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Steffen Elste wrote:
> Hi,
> got 'unstable' running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for quite a while ...
> and am perfectly happy with it! Transition from Karolina's KDE
> packages to the 'official' ones wasn't really smooth but manageable,
> apart from that no complaints. The notebook at work (Fujitsu Siemens
> E7010) causes a bit of a headache - can't get sound to work (alsa, the
> kernel sound module is fine).
>
> Steffen Elste
>
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