On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:35:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > In December a friend will burn 9 debian CDs for me to upgrade my > poorly networked 'woody of may 02' system. > > Shall I have him burn sid or sarge? > > I'm basically a wimp user but need fresh software so I don't sound too > silly in my many bug reports. Finding bugs in woody at this stage will earn you much geek kudos :) > What are the chances my system will come to a screeching halt with sid > vs. sarge? Not likely, but I'd hate to be netless using sid. What will you do if you find a serious issue in sid? If your friend burnt you a copy of sid a few days ago, then every single c++ program on your machine would have been broken. The fix was simple (either revert to the previous version with dpkg or create a symlink), but what would you do if PAM broke again or something? Maybe you could do a test install from the sid CDs and make sure everything mostly works before you move your main machine to it? > After I do the upgrade I don't suppose it is easy to > revert if not happy. It _is_ possible to downgrade, but it's really, really fiddly. I'd suggest just going with sarge; it's got most everything sid does (aside from maybe gnome 2, perl 5.8 and the new glibc), and has more of a guarantee of actually working. Not that sid is that bad, but I wouldn't use it unless you're willing to deal with 'issues'. -rob
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