Re: About Debian documentation
Ok. So, I understand I can make the change and dselect will just get the
new versions as updates without any problem?
I will install debian in another (workstation) machine. Can I install
directly the "woody" version on it? Thanks for your help
"David B. Harris" wrote:
>
> To quote "Dr. Aldo Medina" <aldo_medina@yahoo.com>,
> # For example, Why are so many packages from older version of programs.
> # For example X-chat, wwwoffle ,ncftp and even XFree's packages are from
> # very old versions of the actual programs.
> # I believe dpkg is the absolute best in terms of packaging system (I
> come
> # from RedHat's rpm). That's why I think twice to install a new non-deb
> # version of some program, even when I need some of the new features
> (like
> # XFree 4). So what do you recommend?
>
> Debian is split up into three distributions: Potato/stable,
> Woody/testing, Sid/unstable. Potato is the stable distribution, and is
> generally meant for servers. When you install Potato, you can be sure
> that nothing will be changed out from underneath you. You can run
> 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' without worry.
>
> Woody/testing and Sid/unstable are generally what people run on their
> desktops. Woody is "safer" than Sid, in that new/updated packages are
> uploaded to the Sid repositories before they're automatically added to
> Woody(a few conditions have to be met; the package in Sid can't have
> been updated for at least two weeks, the package in Sid has to have a
> lesser or equal number of bugs, and a few other things). Woody is
> actually fairly up-to-date. glibc 2.2, GNOME 1.2, KDE2, lots of goodies.
> XFree86 4.0.x hasn't made it in, and the Linux kernel 2.4.0 hasn't been
> packaged yet. Sid has XFree86 4.0.2, but the kernel is still 2.2.x.
> However, you can upgrade to 2.4.0 easily(if you run Sid).
>
> So, if you want more recent packages, you should change all references
> to "stable" or "potato" in your /etc/apt/sources.list to either
> "testing" or "unstable".
>
> You can also add a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list pointing
> to unstable. Then, whenever you 'apt-get source <package>', you'll be
> getting the unstable version of that package. You can then use
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b' (as root, in the directory(ies) created by
> the 'apt-get source') to get binary .debs for your system. This isn't a
> guaranteed solution, but it has always worked for me.
>
> David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
> Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
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