Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Daniel Ramaley wrote:
> 
> >When Xorg came out, Sarge was almost ready to become the stable release. 
> >Sarge is what i'm running, but i've not had any problems with my older 
> >hardware. If you want Xorg, try switching to the testing distribution. 
> >To do that, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and every time you see "stable" 
> >or "sarge" change it to "testing".
> >  
> >
> I would recommend duplicating the Stable lines, rather than replacing
> them. Then replace the "stable" or "sarge" in the first (top) set with
> your release of choice.
> 
> This way, the system can fall back to packages in Stable if it (or you)
> need(s) to.

If you do this, it will pick the stable package is there is no testing
package available.  But taking out the lines containing "testing"
won't give you a downgrade if you decide you want to go back.
Downgrading isn't so easy.

-- hendrik

> 
> Also, don't change the "security" line; leave it at stable.

testing doesn't get the so-called security upgrades, which are
carefully chosen upgrades for stable to maintain security while
changing as little as possible.  Testing gets lots and lots
of updates instead.

-- hendrik