Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine
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Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Land Haj <landhaj@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before
>> it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will
>> have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use
>> stable instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in
>> the next few days, and I would very much appreciate some advice:
>>
>> * If I install testing today and change apt sources to stable when
>> etch is done (and do 'aptitude dist-upgrade'), will I have the same
>> installation as I would have if I had waited to do a clean stable
>> install?
>
> Just change the apt sources to 'etch' (if the installer doesn't do
> it for you). Then you will have testing now and stable after etch is
> released, without having to change anything.
>
> But there is another possibility you should consider. Rather than
> reinstalling, you could change your apt sources right now, run 'apt-get
> update' (or the aptitude equivalent), and install apt-show-versions.
> Then run the following command:
>
> apt-show-versions | grep -v /etch | sort
>
> How many of your installed packages differ from those it etch? Can you
> not remove them, then install them again from the etch repository?
>
> [...]
>
It seems people have blinders on today. He said he wanted to use the
32-bit version and he currently uses the 64-bit version. One can't
downgrade a system from 64-bit to 32-bit easily. IMO, one would be
better off re-installing.
Joe
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