Re: which upgrade path from woody?

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:01:45AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
> > >(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
> > >dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of
> > >entire suites of packages there)  Please correct me if I am wrong on
> > >any of these details.
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > If you use Sid, you _will_ have a broken system from time to time.
> > On Sarge, I've merely had the occasional broken package.
> 
> I have had the other experience.  I've had less problems running Sid
> than Testing.  But that might just due to the (random) times I decided
> to do my dist-upgrades.

So it looks as if I should set up sarge in my spare partition,,
and when it becomes stable in a few months, replace my woody with sid.

This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and
upgrade, or new install.

-- hendrik
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> Bill Moseley
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