Re: how to update Debian OS properly
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2012 18:23:37 Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen
>>
>> <mika.henrik.mainio@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> >>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> >>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>> >>> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main
>> >>> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main
>> >>
>> >> You're issue is related to the sid repository. If you need something
>> >> from sid, then uncomment it and after that comment it. Don't feel secure
>> >> using pinning.
>> >>
>> >> You can name the repositories "stable" instead of "squeeze", so it will
>> >> use "stable" what ever Debian "stable" is named.
>> >
>> > Is it safe to use "stable" instead of "squeeze"? Are there usually any
>> > conflicts or anything what would need "full-upgrade" whenever new
>> > "stable" is named?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> No need for "aptitude full-upgrade", even "apt-get upgrade"/"aptitude
>> safe-upgrade" will pull in wheezy (partially) when it becomes
>> "stable".
>
> I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code name in
> my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code name when I
> want to get the more recent version. So, Squeeze not stable, Muhammad. you
> could get in quite a mess at the changeover point from Squeeze to Wheezy if
> you have stable in your sources.list, as several people have pointed out.
if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything.
should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean
to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get
upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-upgrade" will not crash my system if using
squeeze. because what i am worried about here is system crash.
>
> I can't comment on your Windows analogies as I don't use Windows. I think
> that you need to expect that Linux will be different from whatever you used
> in Windows. They are very different OSs.
>
> FWIW, I do most of my admin from the CLI, including updating and upgrading.
> So yes, it can be done from the CLI.
>
> Lisi
>
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