Re: testing migration
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:52AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> Jim McCloskey wrote:
> | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with
> | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14.
> |
> | Hardly anything, though.
> |
> | I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down.
> |
> | Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the
> | time to do a quick report of how it went?
>
> Greetings,
> I haven't had any problems, but I had a thought. If you're
> paranoid about problems going to testing, could you not upgrade to
> sid/unstable and then "downgrade" to sarge/testing (i.e. change your
> sources.conf file). After that, you could let sarge/testing "catch
> up" to where your box is after a few days/weeks until you've settled
> into a full sarge/testing package set. Just a thought, but it seems
> feasible...
That kind of trick sounds likely to generate more problems than just
moving to either testing or unstable, to be honest. If you're going to
move to unstable, it's best to bite the bullet and stay there.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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