Re: Running Unstable (was: Is that all there is to it??)
Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:30, Cassiano Leal <cleal@via-rs.net>
> was heard to say:
> > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I
> > was really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and
> > have to reinstall everything!
> About the only bit of serious advice I'd give in running Unstable is
> what I'd give anyone: Don't purge a previous, working, kernel until
> you know the new kernel is working. :^)
Even better (especially for unstable): keep one old (working) kernel
installed. I learned this the hard way. About one year ago (shortly
after I had done a successful upgrade straight from sarge to sid) got
hit by "the yaird issue". It was a good way of learning to use chroot
from a live-cd ;)
> One way I avoid cruft is that I use dselect, and make sure to "purge"
> all obsolete and other packages that are being removed. Maybe
> aptitude has a setting for that, I don't know.
Aptitude::Purge-unused true;
Regards,
Andrei
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