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Re: What am I running now, Sarge or Sid?



On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:58:19PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote:
> I did a network install of Sarge from this past Saturday's daily .iso.
> After install, I added the unstable distribution to my sources.list and
> upgraded a number of packages.
> 
> So my question is: did I turn Sarge into Sid? Or do I still have Sarge?

Sounds more like you bodged it. "upgraded a number of packages" is
not a good thing to do -- it's a mix between your old testing
distribution and some of unstable. What you should always do is:

edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and s/testing/unstable/g (as an example,
change as appropriate).

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get -u dist-upgrade

when going from one distribution to the other. Of course, the fact
that you have to ask suggests you're unsure. Are you _really_ ready
to be running unstable?

Having a mixture of testing/unstable sources is NOT a good idea, and
you will break your system.

-- Thomas Adam
--
"Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask. You are a flatulent pain in 
the arse." -- Morrissey.



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