Re: If I track testing, what happens when testing becomes stable?
Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> writes:
> On (04/04/05 16:53), Bruno Hertz wrote:
>> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > Andy writes:
>> >> So I am thinking of changing my system to track testing instead of
>> >> stable. But before I do so, I wanted to check how it will work when the
>> >> current testing becomes stable.
>> >
>> > You will notice no change. Packages will continue to flow into Testing
>> > from Unstable.
>> >
>> >> When this happens, should I change my apt sources back to point to
>> >> stable? And then apt-get update as usual?
>> >
>> > Right now the labels Sarge and Testing point to the same thing, while
>> > Stable points to the Woody archive. When the release occurs the effect
>> > from your point of view will be that a copy of Testing as it exists at that
>> > point in time will be created and the labels Sarge and Stable pointed to
>> > it.
>> >
>> > Thus if you want to continue to track Testing after the release point at
>> > Testing and be happy. If you want to track Testing until the release and
>> > then use Sarge (which will be Stable then) point at Sarge.
>>
>> As a fairly new Debian user, that was an issue that troubled me too. I.e.
>> after install, my sources pointed to testing, but my idea was to eventually
>> have the stable sarge release and keep that.
>>
>> Then looking at my mirror, i recognized that sarge currently is just a
>> (sym)link to testing. So what I thought would happen, and take your mail
>> as a confirmation of that, is that once sarge is released, that link will
>> change to point at stable instead.
>>
>> According to that reasoning, I changed my sources to point to sarge instead of
>> testing to accomplish my initial goal, i.e. stay on sarge once it becomes
>> stable.
>>
>> That right?
> Sure is ;)
Thanks very much. It's kind of satisfying to realize and have confirmed that the
straightest logic actually applies :)
Regards, Bruno.
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