Re: deselct - managing multiple releases
--- Colin Bell <cpbell@uwaterloo.ca> escribió: > Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to get this to work (off and on) for the last little
> while. I'm starting to think it's not possible.
>
> Here is my end goal:
>
> (1) I want to maintain a variety of sources in my /etc/apt/sources.list
> file that are pulling from different releases (stable/testing/unstable).
>
> (2) I want to use dselect to do my regular upgrades and installation
> from the "stable" branch. I want packages to appear in dselect that are
> not in stable but exist in either "testing" or "unstable". I then want
> to be able to upgrade (and pull new packages based on dependancies).
>
> Okay. I know that this system will only last a short period of time
> before I want a package from "testing" or "unstable" that has
> dependancies which conflict with "stable" packages. When this happens,
> I want all required "stable" packages to be updated to their "sarge" or
> "sid" counterparts.
>
Since you don't seem to have a problem with using packages from testing or
unstable I am guessing that this not a production or mission critical machine
(firewall, gateway, fileserver, etc). That being the case, why not just go all
the way to unstable right off the bat? I'm still relatively new (a Debian user
for only about 8 months, Linux user for 10 months) and am very impressed with
how "stable" the unstable branch is. So far I have seen that there are few
problems, and when one does arise, it is corrected very quickly. Just an idea.
-Roberto Sanchez
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