On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an
> > > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and then to
> > > copy back configs and data and to install additional stuff. And what
> > > is
> >
> > Fair enough. Whatever works, works. :)
> >
> > > Btw. at the moment I can't install libslv2-dev, because there's a
> > > dependency missing for Debian stable?! If I should e.g. solve this
> > > issue, I won't have to do this again, when a backup is needed.
> >
> > I had no trouble installing libslv2-dev on any of my squeeze systems.
> > Possibly a conflict from another repository?
>
> Yep, I need to do a fresh Debian testing install. I started with Debian
> stable and now I know that I need testing, but I guess I've got an
> uncertain mix of stable and testing.
>
You can use packages from both (IIRC its a setting in apt.conf). What I'd suggest is to have a test (sandbox) type box (preferably a vm where you can revert to a snapshot) and make your own repository from that that your production hosts use.