Re: Debian for enterprise

[Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net>]

> When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and 
> (maybe) testing->testing updates.  If it doesn't do testing->testing, 
> then you have to do each one of them manually.
> 
> This allows you to use stable as the default installation and then pull 
> in spamassassin (for example) from the testing branch to get something 
> more up to date without forcing everything into a -testing environment.
 
I saw this recommended, and I tried it ... and never got anything.  Even
when testing had a higher priority, it never saw the updated packages.
...using apt-get by hand, as dselect confused me, er itself really :-(

Are you using a specific package manager that gave you more control?


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Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett@Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.