Re: building an etch box

[Tim Jordan <tim@pcs-alaska.com>]

I guess I didn't make myself very clear - plus I used the wrong
terminology because I thought "etch" was unstable, sorry about that.

I've already done the steps you listed below and the process choked,
which led me to believe that you can't go from stable right to unstable
without first upgrading to testing.

I'm fairly competent with Debian as I've been running Debian servers for
a few years now.  I just have never tried the unstable branch, which is
what I need to test the Kolab packages.

Thanks anyway,
Tim



David Clymer wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote:
>  
>
>>After building a debian box with the debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso I 
>>want to upgrade this box to unstable.  What is the correct way to do 
>>this?  I'm thinking I have to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to read 
>>unstable, but that didn't work.
>>
>>Do I have to --dist-upgrade to testing first then update my sources.list 
>>and do another --dist-upgrade to unstable?
>>    
>>
>
>My guess is that if you don't know how to do this, then you probably
>lack the skills necessary to deal with breakage that can occasionally
>occur in the unstable branch. If your motivation is to get access to
>more up to date software, I would suggest just running testing ("etch").
>However, you're free to do what you like.
>
>To upgrade to unstable:
>
>1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that any instances of "stable" or
>"sarge" are replaced with "unstable"
>2. apt-get update
>3. apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>-davidc
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