Re: Best debian for me
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:35:41PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
| Thus spake Adam Warner (lists@consulting.net.nz):
|
| > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider
| > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with
| > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a package). And it's more
| > secure than testing.*
| >
| > If you do upgrade remember to do it in two steps. First add testing to
| > your sources.list and then do an apt-get update && apt-get
| > dist-upgrade -u
| >
| > Repeat for unstable if you want to upgrade to the latest software.
|
| Say you've got a testing install. Is it better to just pull in sources
| from unstable as well, or to actually dist-upgrade to unstable?
very little difference
if you see packages held back, it means that some package needs to be
remove or a new package needs to be installed, and 'upgrade' doesn't
do that.
| As I understand it, unstable is a moving target.
so is testing, testing == (unstable - 2 weeks) (approximately)
-D
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