Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:57:02PM +0000, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:35:20 +0000
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > 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?
That's what testing is supposed to be. It would be too hard to try to
construct yet another stage, I believe.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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