On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:14:33PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Jim Woodward wrote:
> >I have testing in my sources.list.
> >Does this mean I am running etch?
> >I am running kernel 2.6.15.6
> >If I am not running etch, how can I upgrade without a new installation?
>
> If you started out with testing in your sources.list or if you did a
> dist-upgrade since you included it, then you should indeed be running
> Etch. The fact that you are using a 2.6.15 kernel suggests it, too.
>
> Simply look at the output of "cat /etc/issue" to be sure. Another
> characteristic thing is your version of libc6; "apt-cache policy libc6"
> will tell you what it is and where it came from.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
Hi *,
the way I look at it, you can run a moving-target stream of debian, a
pre-stable stream (aka testing) or a stable 'release' (aka woody,sarge).
if 'stable', 'testing' or 'unstable' are in your sources.list, you are
running a 'moving-target' system. If you run 'etch'(the current
pre-stable) in your list, EVENTUALLY you will be running 'etch' (the
stable release) when it becomes a stable release but until that time it
is really 'testing' and thus 'moving-target' in the meantime.
When a stable stream in released, it exists for a fixed time.
this how I would see it in a time-line:
2004 2005 2007
<-unstable,testing,stable---------------> always changing
x-woody----------------------x unchanging
x-pre-sarge------x always changing
|
x-sarge---------------------x unchanging
x-pre-etch-------------x always changing
|
unchanging x-etch----------------x
so by using 'etch', on my diagram I see it as 'pre-etch'.
cheers,
Kev
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