Re: Sid Systemd upgrade
Le 21/07/2014 17:59, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> On 2014-07-21, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:26:44PM CEST, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> said:
>>> On 2014-07-21, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:36:30PM CEST, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> said:
>>> (...)
>>>
>>>>> This and more excellent documentation at
>>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Configuring_for_testing
>>>> I do not have the ressources to test : no time no machine which I can afford to break.
>>> In that case, Debian Sid is not a wise choice of operating system.
>> The mess is now in testing, not anymore limited to sid. And testing
>> should be rather stable the last step before stable distrib. So, small
>> problems yes, but major one should have disapeared, and tools & docs
>> to repair what rest should be easily reachable. ANd note that the init
>> system is not just any package. Any bug on it is potentially grave,
>> since it may break every other packages.
>>
> I assumed you were using sid based on the subject of this thread.
> However, I refer you to /usr/share/doc/base-files/README: "You should
> consider the testing and unstable distributions as two sides of the same
> coin". Testing is sometimes broken too, and in fact the breakage can
> take *longer* to fix than in the case of sid. If you are unwilling or
> unable to test, you should avoid both.
>
There is a difference between a package/service broken (I had some and I
handled them by downgrading to previous version till it was sorted, eg
on openldap), and having a non booting system (and seeing the number of
*open* bugs on systemd the risk is far from negligeable).
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