On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:15 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > So, if you leave your sources.list with "testing" then after the > > release, you will continue to see package upgrades as things move from > > unstable to testing. If you use "etch" then when Etch becomes stable, > > you will only see security updates. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Roberto > > > > Wait, so stable only gets security updates? What if there's a > bug in a package, will it get a fix? And I guess just to finish > off my questionnaire, do packages in stable ever get upgrades > for additional functionality? > > If stable only gets security updates, then I find it rather > funny that I know someone running a Debian system with a custom > perl script designed to get only security updates via apt-get. > Was this script a total waste of his time? In general YES, a complete waste of time. cron-apt can be configured any number of ways. And since Stable on gets "security" updates and doesn't change ABIs or APIs. But I really doubt, someone would goto ALL that works when something like cron-apt is available and works wonders. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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