Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote:
If your question is "Will there be problems when sarge becomes stable", the answer is no. IF: Your sources.list states "sarge" and not "testing" (since testing will then point to something elns). If you point to sarge, you will not notice the transition from testing to stable.So any of us with sources.list refs to "testing" should swap them to "sarge" now (or soon, or in a while when somebody says)? and nodist-upgrade will be required?Unless I'm way off - and I suspect that someone will promptly correct me if I am - that will be the case.
Well, yes and no.If you have sarge in your sources.list then the transition should be transparent, but... If you have been doing an occaisional 'apt-get upgrade' (as I have) and not 'dist-upgrade' then you will probably want to do a 'dist-upgrade' after the transition. When you do an 'upgrade' apt will upgrade any packages that are newer, but WILL NOT add, or remove any packages. So if a package is completely self contained, or only relys on other such packages then you will have the most current version. If the packages was split, so that a new package is required in order to upgrade it, or was merged with another package so that one would need to be removed. then 'upgrade' will not handle this, but 'dist-upgrade' will.
-- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42@yahoo.com