Re: upgrade sarge stable to testing

[Richard Mittendorfer <delist@gmx.net>]

Also sprach "PK" <piotrekk@excite.com> (Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:45:21 -0500
(EST)):
> 
> hi

Hello, this is debian's german mailinglist. Use debian-user for english
questions. Anyway...
 
> howto upgrade sarge stable to testing ?
> 
> I have now:
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux debian.sarge 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005 i686
> GNU/Linux
> 
> # vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
> 
> deb ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/debian/ stable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/debian/ stable main

Change "stable" to "testing" or "etch" here. 
 
> # Security
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free

These are not/hardly availible in testing. But you may use

deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
etch/security-updates main contrib non-free

> # Primary
> #deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> #deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> 
> should I replace all "stable" to "testing" and upgrade wit:
>
> apt-get distupgrade

"apt-get update" to get the packageindex in sync
"apt-get upgrade" to install newest packages


sl ritch