Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > some people have different goals than i.
>
> You're correct. Though I do have a primary goal to have a stable
> system, I sometimes (albeit it's rare) I need to install package
> that's not in stable, or I need some feature from a more recent
> version of something which is why backports is important to me.
I wonder what you mean by "stable" system? In a Debian context it
means "unchanging". You cannot have a stable system with a testing
or unstable line in sources.list.
The best-effort backports should be OK. All the packages there are
built on stable. A single package from testing or unstable may be
OK, but if it brings in other packages I'd think twice about it,
especially if it involves the infrastructure of the system.
> Up to now, I have been running Testing which has served me pretty
> well. I've been convinced by discussion here to move to Stable +
> Backports.
Sounds like a good plan.
> I included Experimental which probably was a mistake and I probably
> meant Unstable. (I can see Greg rolling his eyes...)
>
> Here's a blog post I was looking at: https://rabexc.org/posts/apt-config
>
> This is very close, if not exactly, what I want to do. I'm very aware
> about mixing releases. If you ever do this, you need to be very
> careful not to suck in a ton of dependencies. Greg is correct, you
> can at the click of a key unwittingly install so many dependencies
> that your system becomes that release.
You really appear to have it sorted now.
--
Brian.
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