Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list f ... sorry for the noise
On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Colin <colintempler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On 2012-01-29 11:51 +0100, Colin wrote:
> > > This depends on what you intend to do when wheezy becomes stable. Do
> > > you want to continue to use testing forever, or do you want to have a
> > > system that remains basically unchanged for a long time? If the latter,
> > > use "wheezy" instead of "testing".
> > >
> > > Sven
> >
> > I see.
> > I want to stay with testing in the long term but would prefer not to
> > await for security updates.
> > Right now security updates are treated as a normal update, that is a
> > normal package transition from unstable to testing, correct?
> >
>
> Colin,
>
> Perhaps this will explain it better. This is taken from ftp.us.debian.org:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 6 Feb 5 2011 testing -> wheezy
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 23 Feb 5 2011
> testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
> drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 28 Jan 29 2012 wheezy
> drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 29 2012
> wheezy-proposed-updates
>
I am convinced. I should read with better comprehension. Sorry.
> There is no difference, at all, between Wheezy and Testing -- They are the
> same physical thing on the Debian repository server's hard disk. Testing
> is nothing more than a symlink to Wheezy. When updates go into Testing,
> they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy.
>
> To answer your other question, security updates for Testing move through
> from Unstable like any other update except for being fast tracked:
>
> http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
>
> Does that help at all? :-)
>
> --
> Chris
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Paul E Condon
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