Re: Advice on staying current

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +0000, andy wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, 
> and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have 
> been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, 
> I'll let those slide for now. Otherwise, this has been a great 
> experience and I am loving having access to so many applications that 
> install so well: what a breeze!!
> 
> Anyway, I just wanted to pick the collective brain here: short of doing 
> a dist-upgrade with apt-get, or upgrading individual packages, is there 
> a third way of ensuring that the system-wide software I am running is 
> up-to-date (although, I don't want bleeding edge from Sid!!)?
> 

Have /etc/apt/sources.list point to etch not testing.

Then use aptitude interactively, hit 'u' to update the list.  If there's
updates available you'll see a tag for 'upgradable packages'.  Hit + on
this list to select them all.  Hit 'g' to go, and review the list of
what it wants to do.  Change anything you want then hit 'g' to do it.

That's it.  Interactivly so you see what's happening.

Enojoy.

Doug.