Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
Thomas Adam wrote:In the first place, the package 'apt-listbugs' can help you avoid some critical bugs (those that are already known at the time you apt-get install <some_packages>).--- Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)?Basically, yes. "dist-upgrade" implies "upgrade", but more importantly a dist-upgradeinstalls dependant packages external to those not already installed, whichan upgrade does not (see the manpage for apt-get).If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a lower-numbered version, how would I do so?
Bloody hell! Dolphin:~# apt-get install apt-listbugs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dpkg-ruby libdpkg-ruby1.8 libintl-gettext-ruby libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 libzlib-ruby libzlib-ruby1.8 The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-listbugs dpkg-ruby libdpkg-ruby1.8 libintl-gettext-ruby libintl-gettext-ruby1.8 libzlib-ruby libzlib-ruby1.8 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 182kB of archives. After unpacking 786kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au Z1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au