On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:07:53 andy wrote: > Has anyone any experience yet in changing their sources.list from "etch" > (back) to "testing" (i.e. "Lenny")? If so, has it been a smooth > transition, any problems or gotchas? > > I suppose, more generally, when is a good time to switch if one wants an > up-to-date system, albeit not bleeding edge and unstable? Are there any > criteria for making such a decision, or is it really just the user's own > preferences? Sounds like you already switched, but here is a setup I use a lot of times that let's you run etch, but be able to selectively pull down packages from unstable/experimental by manually requesting them, but making sure they are pinned so that you don't automatically get wild system updates. You could replace unstable/experimental in this setup with testing to get a similar effect. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 40 -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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