Re: how stable is testing?
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Szabó András wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Testing sometimes had problems in the last some years, not so much,
> but more than zero is a problem :) Anyway, it is called testing :)
>
> I have some machines running stable debian & some testing packages,
> and i have no problems at all. So you can try it.
> Search google with "apt pinning" ant you will see how.
>
> András
>
The eternal question that keeps poping up ;-)
Close to a version freeze (as we are now) its quite stable. The farther
away you go from a freeze the less stable it is. Usually unstable is more
stable since fixes go in, in a matter of a day or so, sometimes hours if
they cause problems (inability to install an such).
Problems in testing, once they go in, can take weeks to fix sometimes.
(Like I said though, now is not tipical since a freeze is in progress)
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:05:09 -0700, Gilbert, Joseph
> <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > So, I'm sure this has been discussed before but I would like to get some
> > up-to-date input on this.
> >
> > I have been administering a Debian network for about a year and a half now.
> > >From my experience, stable does not have a quick path to getting version
> > updates incorporated into it. This makes for a hassle if you want to run,
> > for instance, an up to date sendmail server. I have seen this sort of
> > problem on a number of my servers. My solution (probably the wrong one) has
> > been to update whatever I needed to from testing and slag through whatever
> > conflicts resulted from the mixed system.
> >
> > It seems that if I want to have things run smoothly when I am upgrading or
> > installing new packages, it is best to either use one or the other. So, my
> > question basically is testing generally good enough for most standard server
> > implementations? What sort of uptimes can be expected? I know this is a
> > general question since it will depend a lot on what I am doing with these
> > servers and how heavily they are hit, etc.
> >
> > Joe
> >
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