RE: How unstable is Potato?
I've had little trouble with Potato. The only glitches I ever run into
are when some random package in the unstable branch is updated, and
several packages with dependencies on it aren't caught up. apt-get
will typically "hold" these packages back, until the mess is straightened
out. dselect is less "competent" when dealing with this problem.
If you've been using apt-get and dselect for any length of time, however,
you should have no problem getting around this.
Bryan
On 17-Nov-99 John Gay wrote:
>
>
> Judging from the Debian weekly news recently posted, the main stopping point
> for
> freezing Potato is the boot floppies. I'm running a Slink system because I am
> very new to Linux and UNIX. The only deviation from Slink is I installed an
> updated Xserver for my ATI AGP Rage+ video card. I have been compiling new
> kernels to try to get USB working for a few projects, but other than that,
> I'm
> very nervous of upgrading. I recently got a new scanner, because I couldn't
> get
> the USB one working, but I can't compile xsane or xscanimage because I need
> gtk+
> 1.2, which, although gtk does have slink .debs for it, it also requires
> xlib6g
>>=3.3.4. This, in turn relies on libc6 >=1.2. Both of these requires Potato.
>>If
> the boot floppies are the main problem with potato, I'd upgrade because I've
> already got a working system. But if upgrading is going to break lots of
> stuff,
> I guess I'll wait till the next millennium. I did have a very bad experience
> when I did upgrade libc6 to 1.2 a while ago, then tried to install
> StarOffice.
> StarOffice insisted on updating some libraries and rendered my system
> completely
> broken! Even the help of Linux experts couldn't recommend anything but a
> complete install. This was back in June, and I think I remember something
> about
> Potato being in very bad shape at that moment. I now have StarOffice rpm's on
> a
> CD-ROM I got on a magazine cover, but I haven't installed it yet.
>
> So, My main question is, other than the boot floppies, is Potato fairly safe
> and
> stable for a relative newbie? My system doesn't have apt installed, but I
> should
> be able to use dselect to upgrade. Would it be easier to use dselect to
> install
> apt via ftp and then use apt to update the rest of my system?
>
> Thanks again for all the help and for a very tidy and easy to update Linux
> system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
>
>
>
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