Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?
On 12/15/08 13:24, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
I am currently running Lenny on two laptops. I thought i had seen
something on this list about how, with Lenny close to release, the
> "lenny" repositories are different from "testing", and if we want
A big pile of packages is piling up in *Experimental*, because of
the Lenny Freeze. DDs don't want _new_ stuff accidentally migrating
into Lenny, when what they want is for bug-fixes to existing
versions to migrate from Sid to Lenny.
> to keep up to date we should switch to "testing" in sources.list.
> But the docs say that lenny is just a symlink to "testing".
You've got it backwards. Check out this ftp directory:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists
Note in the attachement that stable, testing and unstable are
symlinks to etch, lenny and sid.
When lenny goes stable, the stable symlink will be pointed to lenny,
and the lenny directory tree will be duped into a new directory
named squeeze, and the testing symlink will be pointed to squeeze.
Im not trying to be ultra-bleeding-edge, but im willing to trade some stability for newer packages. I thought thats what i was doing with "lenny". Should i switch to "testing" in sources.list, or am i confused?
Go to Sid. You'll still excellent stability (unless you have very
new hardware), but still have pretty-current software. Except for
times like this, very close to Lenny release.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?
ncftp /debian/dists > dir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 4 Feb 16 2008 Debian4.0r5 -> etch
-rw-r--r-- 1 400 400 400 Oct 27 20:27 README
drwxr-sr-x 5 400 400 4096 Oct 23 16:44 etch
drwxr-sr-x 5 400 400 78 Dec 15 08:46 etch-m68k
drwxr-sr-x 5 400 400 24576 Dec 15 08:45 etch-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x 5 400 400 78 Dec 15 08:48 experimental
drwxr-sr-x 17 400 400 4096 Dec 15 08:46 lenny
drwxr-sr-x 5 400 400 78 Dec 15 08:46 lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 21 Nov 10 2007 proposed-updates -> etch-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 12 Aug 4 20:46 rc-buggy -> experimental
drwxr-sr-x 18 400 400 4096 Dec 15 08:48 sid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 4 Nov 10 2007 stable -> etch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 21 Nov 10 2007 stable-proposed-updates -> etch-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 5 Nov 10 2007 testing -> lenny
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 22 Nov 10 2007 testing-proposed-updates -> lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 400 400 3 Nov 10 2007 unstable -> sid
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