Re: Installing potato now - is it worth it?
Hi,
>I'm a redhat user who is weary of rpm and is planning to switch to
>debian. I just have a question. If I install the frozen potato now and
>help testing it, will I be able to upgrade it to the release version
>without reinstalling the whole thing?
I'm on unstable for over two years now and do quite ftp updates quite
often.
I only once had to fix a problem manually.
>I mean, is it only packages that is easy to replace that could have
>problems?
In my experience only "unimportant" packages get broken.
You might end up with a non working <xxx> now and then,
but it will get fixed with the next package.
>I don't really want to wait until the release, but I don't want to
>reinstall everything from scratch in a week or two either.
No. Once the system is set up you'll never have to reinstall.
I have a small "server" at home that I set up on bo (how old is that?)
and survived all dist-upgrades. It's been on unstable for over six month
now
(yes, unstable, not frozen) and is still doing his work.
Only drawback was the switch to the new bind config files,
but that happens if you don't read your mail ;)
ciao
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