On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:21:21AM +0200, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0700, Brian Ballsun-Stanton wrote:
> > This is my dilemma: to run samba-tng, I have to upgrade to "unstable." My
> > mandate explictly states that downtime is *BAD*, very, very, very,
> > bad. How risky is running unstable? What shouldn't I do? Should I upgrade
> > to 2.4.6? (I'm running a home box as a testbed for this, so I'll be warned
> > slightly in advance, but...)
>
> You can compile package foo from source with "apt-get -b source foo", so
> that you don't have to dist-upgrade everything. Just put these lines in
> your "/etc/apt/sources.list":
>
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> Don't forget to "apt-get upgrade" :-)
Actually if all you want to get from unstable is a few selected source
packages, DON'T 'apt-get upgrade', but you must 'apt-get update'.
^^^^
A build from unstable sources won't work in all situations (like when
build-dependencies can't be met), but it won't break anything when it
fails.
Bob
