Re: Potato -> Woody
I call Debian guilty of 2 counts :-)
1) Too easy user interface for the upgrade and maintenance.
2) Too stable for "testing" distribution.
Read on to find out why:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've been seeing a lot of discussions in various places about a rocky
> Potato -> Woody upgrade path. I've upgraded 3 systems from Potato to
> Woody (and subsequently upgraded 2 of those to sid) and have yet to have
> any major problem. `
Same here.
I use half mixture of sid and woody using /etc/apt/preferences just to
be on safe side. I remember it was tough about a year ago, when lilo,
libc6, ... etc. broke system. No thrill at all running testing :)
> Using the precompiled 2.4.14 kernel made one of my systems unbootable,
> but that was easily remedied by booting from my Potato CD and
> recompiling a new kernel by hand.
This is typical skill level people needs to run testing confidently.
Good for you. Just because it is so easy to do "apt-get dist-upgrade",
too many newbies tend to upgrade Debian to unstable without realizing
dangers involved, that is the problem.
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There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt
I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
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