Re: How stable is SID?
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 15:30, Rick Friedman wrote:
> Currently, I am running Sarge on my home machine. I am thinking of doing
> a dist-upgrade to SID. I am ready to deal with any problems that may
> crop up. However, I DO have other people in the house who use the
> machine as well. I am wondering if SID is, at least, reasonably stable?
>
> Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Install apt-listbugs, and apt-listchanges. They'll help a lot. Apt-listbugs
in particular, will tell catch most problems with a new package before you
install it, and give you the chance to back out.
Use a frontend like synaptic to update your lists of software, and it'll tell
you what's new. When you choose to upgrade stuff, it'll tell you what will
be removed (or whatever) by the upgrade, and you'll again have the chance to
back out.
Make sure you have your boot loader setup to always let you boot your previous
kernel in case one you install turns out to have issues.
Learn how to use querybts to look for bug details (and/or kde's web
shortcuts :), and also learn how to use apt's pinning to hold or prioritise
different packages.
If you can handle that, you'll be good. If not, use testing. But a lot of
the same applies to all of debian I think, so for me there's not much
difference :)
--
Lee.
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