Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion
David Jardine wrote:
The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid seems to be
the only stable one.)
Wouldn't things work more smoothly if "stable" and "testing" were
not allowed in /etc/apt/sources.list or anywhere else except as
purely informative descriptions?
I agree that for a newbie this can be quite confusing. I myself got
confused with it in the beginning. But being a newbie is not an excuse
to not read the FAQ and other documentation out there. There are tons of
documentation out there.
The Debian release naming conventions are quite clearly explained in
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
Please take a look at section 5.
Further, I tried to put some additional FAQs and their answers at
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html
Nothing is easy in Linux in the beginning. But the learning pays off in
the long run.
just my 2 cents
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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