Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:19:48 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > 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.
Where I would part company with that blog's philosophy is at
"fallback to stable first, unstable second, and experimental last".
Experimental as a fallback!
The problem with following a blog is that it assumes you have a
technical competence comparable with the author, and the confidence
to go with it. I took a look at another rabexc story there, where
they had a failing SSD that caused running dpkg to fail, but they
needed smartmontools to examine the disk. So they just created
/var/cache/apt in memory, downloadloaded and unpacked smartmontools,
and ran the binary from there, without breaking sweat.
Not for the faint of heart.
Cheers,
David.
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