Re: Upgrade sarge
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:56:15PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:46:22PM -0400, John Fleming wrote:
> > Inexperienced question - I'm running Sarge, with newer ClamAV from
> > volatile and newer SpamAssassin from backports. When I'm ready to
> > upgrade to Etch, I assume I don't need the backports and volatile
> > entries in sources.list? Will ClamAV and SA get upgraded as part of
> > the upgrade to Etch, or is this more complicated now because the
> > versions I am using are from volatile and backports?
> >
> The answer is (of course) "it depends."
>
> As a matter of policy, Debian does not officially support upgrades with
> third party packages. There would be far too many combinations of
> packages. In general, however, upgrading with backported packages works
> out just fine.
>
> If the versions in Etch are newer than your volatile and backports
> versions, then everything will happen automatically. If you have done
> anything non-standard (like pinning), then things can get more
> complicated.
>
Also note Etch's release notes: debian-volatile is now an official
repostory with a new URL.
Doug.
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