Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?
>>>>> "John" == John Anthony Kazos <programmer@vt.edu> writes:
John> And for another thing, I looked at ftp.debian.org and the
John> disks-i386 directory for woody is empty. What then is the
John> upgrade process? Using the "dist-upgrade" method of "apt-get"?
Yes.
John> If so, I still need to know the answer to my previous question:
John> Will system files, like /etc/{fstab,profile}, be overwritten,
John> possibly irrevocably, by the upgrade process? The documentation
John> on the site is nonexistant.
Files that can be manually edited per debian policy will not be
replaced without warning, I believe. But I haven't done this myself,
yet, so you want a 2nd opinion.
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