RE: Potato->Woody HOWTO?
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob Koss wrote:
> >
> > I've just subscribed to the list a few days ago and I'm seeing
> > many messages about people migrating from the Stable to the
> > Testing version
> > of Debian which makes me think that it's not such a painful
> > process as I had
> > thought.
> >
> > Is there a HOWTO or something (perhaps in the archives?)
> > explaining how to do it? (passing from the stable version to the testing
> > version)
> >
> > Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Welcome.
>
> I just did this yesterday. It was so simple, even *I* couldn't screw it up.
>
> In /etc/apt/sources.list, change all occurrences of 'potato' to either
> 'testing' or 'woody'. The difference is subtle. See Colin's message that he
> posted a few minutes ago for the distinction.
>
> Then, do 'apt-get update', followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
>
I would suggest woody since when woody becomes stable testing will point
to something you probably wouldn't want it too. i.e. testing would once
again consist a small number of packages.... so that the next stable release
after woody can be 'tested'. At least this is my perception.
-walter
ps. Older video cards don't seem to be backported to the newer XFree86
but I imagine one can install one of the older X3.3.6 servers...
As for newer cards it was a distinct pleasure to note that the latest X11
apt update resulted in my new rage128 card working!
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