Joris Huizer said: > Hello everybody, > > I'd like to know wether & how I could keep the Debian > installation up to date - and using stable progs at > the same time.
check /etc/apt/sources.list and be sure you have some http or ftp mirrors in there for the various sites, for updates ONLY depending on how paranoid you are you may want to stick to just security.debian.org, then when you see news of a new point release(e.g. 3.0r2) un-comment the other lines and update/upgrade. I think when 2.2r6 came out I freaked out because one system was upgrading a buncha stuff and I had not seen any announcement of the new point release at the time. my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free the typical upgrade procedure: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade if you want to do it unattended I reccomend something like: apt-get update ; apt-get -d upgrade then when your at the system run the apt-get upgrade (the -d tells it to only download). Even on debian I don't reccomend running unattended package installs, I've been bitten by at least one really nasty problem when trying an unattended package upgrade (it was upgrading SSH, which stopped SSH first then errored out, preventing any remote access to the machine, luckily I discovered it while running it on a local machine before trying it on a remote machine, I was playing with an auto update script I had written to upgrade about 30 machines). > Can anybody tell me what a could way could be to keep > up to date ? > And, are there many changes on the stable branche or > is it more or less, eh, stable ? it is very stable. for some it's too stable so they use a mix of testing, or move to testing or unstable. I personally don't anticipate myself needing to move to testing anytime soon, stable provides everything I need, with the exception of a couple perl things which I recompile from testing. Debian is by far the most "stable" distribution I've used to-date. it's stable and predictable enough that on tuesday I was able to talk a system admin from my former company through a dist-upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0(there was some troubles upgrading cyrus, and the sendmail I had on that server was severely hacked up, and the webmail stuff broke on the upgrade). Took about an hour for everything, real simple and the box was back to normal. He was suprised when I told him not to reboot for upgrading to 3.0. I think that was either the last, or the 2nd to last 2.2 debian box that company has left. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
