Re: System maintenance

[cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>]

* Steve Kemp (skx@debian.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> 
> > I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes.  What are those?
>  
>    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44
> 
>    They show you outstanding bugs/changes which will be applied when
>   you upgrade.

Very cool.  Good to know about that.  But, I found that my system
doesn't have any idea about anything like apt-listbugs.  I followed
the link in the article and found that there were packages listed for
stable and unstable.  How does one normally proceed from there?  Will
there typically be a testing package later?

> > One thing that I am now curious about is the setup of sources.list and
> > the release of the next stable.  For instance, my sources.list was
> > initially setup with entries for 'etch' such as "deb
> > http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/mirrors/debian/ etch main contrib non-free" I
> > have seen online some people have 'testing' where mine says etch.
> > Would having etch mean that when the next release of stable comes out,
> > which I am gathering will be etch, I will then be running stable? 
> 
>   Exactly.

Very nice.  That should make either choice fairly bump free, I would
think.

Thanks,

Patrick