Re: Question re Debian versions
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Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net> writes:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:35, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
>
>> > I'm not sure that "less stable" is the right term, but "less usable"
>> > almost certainly is.
>>
>> backports.org is your friend.
>
> Here's a question for the more experienced folks: is "downgrading" from
> unstable to stable as easy as upgrading is?
Not particularly. I've never downgraded libc successfully on a
machine across major version changes without having to reinstall.
Your best bet if you don't want to reinstall is watch closely after
sarge goes stable for a new unstable fork off to testing, and move
when they fork.
> For the most part, it's worked okay, except for a couple of times when I'd
> upgrade things and something important would stop working... but I'm not
> sure any more that I'm really that comfortable on the "bleeding edge". I
> *can* fix things -- I'm a Unix sysadmin in my day job -- but honestly,
> after spending all day fixing *other* people's computer problems, I want a
> system that just works at home.
Stable with backports.org updates of key items would probably be to
your liking, then.
> Alternatively, how soon is Sarge going to become stable?
Sometime before Dec 31, 2003 if people get moving on it was the last I
heard. I know the right answer is someplace on the website, if you
find it, post it.
> I suppose another way to do it would be to switch my sources.list to
> point to Sarge and see if that would work -- I'd think that that
> would be an easier "downgrade". Then when Sarge becomes stable, I
> could switch my sources.list to point to stable, and start using
> backports.org for things I decide I want a more recent version of...
That's another viable solution, but it'll take more work than your
"back up /home and reinstall woody" plan, I imagine.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
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