Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?
>>>>> "John" == John Anthony Kazos <programmer@vt.edu> writes:
John> I'm running potato. Is it safe (read, won't screw up the
John> installation) to change the lines in sources.list to refer to
John> woody as well as potato, so that I use a newer version if it's
John> in woody and an older one if it's only in potato? I'm not
John> significantly concerned about problems with the packages
John> themselves (I'm running 2.4.0-test2, why not unstable Debian); I
John> just wanted to make sure that the differences between potato and
John> woody are just package differences and don't require a special
John> process to use the newer packages. Are there any caveats with
John> doing this? (It's difficult for me to recover from an unbootable
John> Linux on this box.)
What will that do that simply switching to woody wouldn't?
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