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Re: What are your best practices for running Debian unstable?



On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:32:47PM +0100, Aniruddha wrote:
> I've collected some best practices for running Debian unstable,  I'm
> curious to hear what other Debian unstable users do to minimize
> possible problems with running Debian unstable. My current list:
> 
> * Install apt-listbugs
> * Install apt-listchanges
> * Check the ' Debian Weather'  before dist-upgrades (
> http://edos.debian.net/weather/ )
> * Check 'Upgrade Warnings' in the aptosid forums before dist-upgrades

These are not bad idea but not that essential.

You have to have a rescue media or another relatively new content
partition which you can use to boot your system after you broke it with
upgrade.  Dual boot + Rescue GRUB disk is something I always use to save
my recovery time.

Osamu
 
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