Tim Beauregard wrote:
Tim, like Jochen's reply, your post was particularly helpful which I'll keep and refer to in the months to come.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote:Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances andI manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no packages are being kept back, I select 'y'. If I see packages being kept back, I will select 'n', then use apt-get dist-upgrade. If no essential packages are to be removed, I select 'y'. If essential packages are to be removed (eg. gnome), I select 'n' then run apt-get upgrade. After a period of [n] days, these essential packages are eventually upgraded. This method has kept an unstable i386 and amd64 system unbroken for many moons. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpts8cACgkQsUUdIDHrdAW/2gCfVvVneDcUu5+sdlT6kBiAEMLo S2wAnA3OO+WTCpm4s8PoK/EpFO8SwcZB =P+s9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Much obliged. AG |