Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

[Raquel Rice <raquel@thericehouse.net>]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:50:07 -0500
ScruLoose <scruloose+debuser@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:37:52PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote:
> > 
> > In reading the messages from the last day or two, I came across
> > the one above.  Not being familiar with apt, if I use "stable"
> > in my sources.list, when Sarge is released, my machine will be
> > updated to the new release without specifying that I want it?
> 
> Yep.
> Well, as soon as you issue an "upgrade" or "dist-upgrade" command,
> that is. Or if you use aptitude...
> 
> That's why I specify "woody" in my sources.list instead of
> "stable". I probably will switch to sarge as soon as it gets
> released as "stable"(if not before), but I want to do it when _I_
> want.
> 
> 	Cheers!

Oh gosh.  I'm just trying to figure out apt and now I'm hearing
about aptitude in this post and a prior post.  Is aptitude really
that much better?  I tried the Debian site for more information, but
it seems that was also affected by this last weekend's events.

Thanks for the info on upgrading.

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Raquel
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