On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > You say you reinstalled from zero twice. What's the best way to get into > unstable? Installing the stable version and then doing a dist-upgrade or > installing unstable right-away, I mean when debian installation asks you which > sources to choose you manually edit sources.list and put the unstable sentence > ;-) > Another question. When testing becomes stable, I suppose that after this > transition if you have sth like > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > your debian will go on with the next testing debian Os, right? just doing a > apt-get upgrade will do the trick, won't it? Hi Jordi, as you said, if you keep 'testing' in you sources.list, you will continue to track testing. the only un-changing and un-upgrading version is 'stable' modulo the few security updates. Thus if you change your 'testing' to 'etch' (in the current time frame), you will be running the pre-stable version of etch, now and will eventually run stable when it is release and will thus have a fixed point in time when you will not get anymore updates. Also, dist-upgrade is not usually needed if you are 'upgrading' within a version whereas 'dist-upgrade' is usally needed if you are moving to a differnt version (cf. stable->testing,stable->unstable, testing->unstable). cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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