Re: Newbieish question
Well, sorta ::chuckles::
I don't mind upgrading stuff (I think...) but... I don't know what not to
do....
I think main question is: how unstable is unstable, and how do I make it
more stable?
Thanks for answering, BTW :)
-Brian
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:21:21 +0200
> From: Stephen Rueger <stephen.rueger@hadiko.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Newbieish question
> Resent-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:22:21 -0700
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote:
> > This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to "unstable." My
> > mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very,
> > bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade
> > to 2.4.6? (I'm running a home box as a testbed for this, so I'll be warned
> > slightly in advance, but...)
>
> You can compile package foo from source with "apt-get -b source foo", so
> that you don't have to dist-upgrade everything. Just put these lines in
> your "/etc/apt/sources.list":
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> Don't forget to "apt-get upgrade" :-)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Stephen Rueger
>
>
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