On 18/09/14 02:11 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
If your /etc/apt/sources.list file refers to your current distribution as "stable" then once Jessie becomes the new "stable" then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade will work.I'm not sure what you mean by "it was also hooked up to wheezy updates". Keeping both sets of repositories would be useful if a package you require was dropped from the current "testing" and even then you might be better off compiling it for your current system. If the wheezy package has dependencies, and most do, then it could fail at any time.If your sources.list file calls it "wheezy" then you need to change it to "jessie" before doing the apt-gets.If you want to keep upgrading to the latest "testing" distribution, then change "stable" or "wheezy" to "testing" and do the apt-gets.Please can I ask a dumb question here. My sources.list file was set to testing and it also was hooked up to wheezy updates. Was that unhelpful to me once wheezy became stable?Also, if you would continue being "testing" as I had tried to do (but ended up having to reinstall as testing) was it right of me to keep the testing repository links in there and change the wheezy updates to Jessie updates as I did.Was I doing something wrong there that contributed to me not being able to continue as testing without reinstalling?Thanks Michael Fothergill
My advice is don't mix stable and testing. Use backports if you need a newer package than stable contains or stick with testing and pull something down from Sid if a testing package you need breaks. Remember, testing is not guaranteed to work.
I personally prefer to always do a dist-upgrade since it is a more complete upgrade than the normal one. If your repositories always point to testing, this will keep you current. Other people prefer to just do an upgrade, claiming it is safer. However you might miss major changes, such as a switch from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice.
If you didn't do a dist-upgrade since Jessie came out, you could be running the older wheezy packages as part of your system. Not recommended.