Re: [tlug] (no subject)

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 19:35, Tribble Phillip J SrA 374 LRS/LGRTT 
> wrote:
>   
> > Does anyone know how to upgrade from Debian Etch (Testing) to Debian
> > Etch (Stable) when it comes out? Is it a simple process of changing
> > the apt sources from testing to stable ?
> >     
>
> You should be able to change the sources right now to "etch" and it will 
> stay on Etch once it becomes stable.
>
> At home i'm running Etch and have it referenced directly in my 
> sources.list like so:
>     deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
>     deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
>     deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
> So, i'm not planning on changing anything when Etch becomes stable.
>   
At least for production systems running on the stable version of Debian 
this is the One True Way of doing things, referencing the version by 
name (e.g. Sarge, Etch), not by flavour (e.g. testing, stable).

Otherwise you run the chance of an unplanned dist-upgrade from one 
version to the next. Been there, done that. I have also made a habit of 
using "apt-get -u upgrade" instead of "apt-get -uy dist-upgrade" as 
default, and always having at least one coffee in the system befor 
running any upgrades:-)

mvh,
-sig

--
Sigurd Urdahl
Linux, goofing, cooking, making fire, computer security, having a
beer. Give me good music.