Re: moving from stretch to sid

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 10 2015,Sven Hartge wrote:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in
>> sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid?  
>
> This is correcnt.

Thanks


> a) remove the references to security.debian.org. There is no security
>    support for Sid.

umm,that so? oh well,now having 2nd thoughts

> b) be aware that Sid can and will be broken at times. You should know
>    how to boot into rescue mode or how to use a rescue CD/DVD/USB key
>    to repair your system, if needed.

I know it will be broken but I don't know enough debian sysadmin to
manage rescue stuff...yet.  Right now, running off a VM.  Is there
something that I can read to familiarise myself as to what to do when
things go kaput?

>
> c) know your package management tools and how to downgrade packages,
>    where to get old packages (snapshot.debian.org), how to hold packages,
>    how to reinstall packages.

I'm just about familiar with the apt tools not what you'd call an
expert or deeply experienced on it.  Again, something to read up would
be nice and I'd hare off to read it before I hose my debian instance
completely. 


Thanks again, for your reply.

 sivaram
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