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Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?



On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
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> I will probably follow stable unless the packages are all too old, then
> will jump to testing.  This brings up something else: if I have
> "testing" in my sources.list file and replace it with "stable" (if I
> want to go back to stable), what will aptitude do during an upgrade or
> dist-upgrade?  Will it down-grade packages or just not update them?

I believe it will just not update them, until stable becomes more up-to-date
tha you intalled packages.  Which will take a very long time.  And you
probably won't get any security upgrades either.

-- hendrik

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