Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?
I was under the impression, due to the numberous and strong warnings
around woody files on the web site, that there were fundamental
differences between releases of debian (slink/potato/woody/...). For
example, I wouldn't want a package upgrade to wipe out lilo.conf or
fstab, or for other such unpleasantness to occur because I was
downloading just the packages and not doing a fresh install or a
special upgrade procedure. Is it the case that simply adding a line
in sources.list and allowing all of the packages to upgrade will not
destroy my installation, mess around with files like fstab and
/etc/skel, and such? Or is there a special procedure I should go
through to upgrade?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >>>>> "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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