Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:35:20 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > What would be really helpful would be if there was some easy-to-find
> > running guidance on what testing users should do - like "don't do a
> > dist-upgrade just yet" ... etc. Maybe there is such information - if
> > so I'd like to know how to find it.
>
> IRC channels are the best you're likely to do for running guidance. If
> there's really serious hose-your-system breakage then somebody usually
> posts to mailing lists about it; if it's just package conflicts and
> things, then, well, you should pay attention to what the package manager
> says it's going to remove and say no if it looks mad.
OK. Thanks.
This may be a stupid question, but has consideration been given to having
a 'holding area' between testing and stable to which stuff gets moved only
when there are no breakages?
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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