Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:10 pm, feanor7 wrote:
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> But when the great day arrives, and sarge becomes stable, what will
> happens when "apt-get dist-upgrade" runs? I'm afraid that all systems
> will be forced to a massive software upgrade (kernel-image, mysql, exim
> ...) and some incompatible configuration could break my applications.
>
> There is any suggestion or documention to follow in that case?
>
> I never saw a debian branch change, so I don't know what expect.
If you have a spare machine, clone the machine in question and then edit the
sources.list to point to testing. Do a dist-upgrade and see what, if
anything, breaks. I recently did this with my web and mail servers and
fortunately, nothing I was using broke. I figured that it's probably better
to deal with it now rather than later.
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