Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:03:55PM -0400, dman wrote:
> Sometimes I point my sources at sid. Not all packages are in woody
> (eg galeon, recent gnucash). I adjust source.list, run 'apt-get
> update' to update the database, 'apt-get install <foo>' to install
> foo, put sources.list back, run 'apt-get update' to update the
> database. This last "update" makes the woody stuff be the newest that
> is known (aside from the installed stuff).
I used to do this. Do not. Check "man 5 apt_preferences".
It is much more reasonable to have testing as default (Say pin 700) and
unstable as pin 600, stable as pin 500. List all 3 sources in
sources.list. If you really nead to upgrade to unstable, you can do
that with:
# apt-get -u -t unstable dist-upgrade
See my web page below for some of my experiences.
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