Re: Daily Updates

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

andy on 11/04/07 20:12, wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> > Joe Hart writes:
> >   
> > > if you're running Etch you won't be getting many, if you're running Lenny
> > > (which is kind of hard because AFAIK it isn't all complete yet)
> > >     
> >
> > Lenny (Testing) is complete.  It just happens to be nearly identical to
> > Etch at the moment.
> >   
> Thanks steef, Joe & John for the response.
>
> If I wanted to remain current (w/out being bleeding-edge ala Sid), would 
> I now be adjusting my apt-sources-list to look for "testing" rather than 
> "etch" as they do now?
>
> How risky is this on a workstation/desktop-&-music-&-Net box?

It depends how often you are going to do an across-the-board upgrade of all your 
packages to stay current, and I guess it depends alot on knowing what you are 
doing. I guess if you have to ask, you will end up learning alot!

That's what happened to me. I stayed with etch through about 18 months of 
testing and found every 3 months I would encounter some mind-bending problem 
concerning things I never knew existed. Would spend an hour or a day sorting it 
out with help from this list and elsewhere.

Adam