On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:09:12PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:14:33PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Jim Woodward wrote: > > >I have testing in my sources.list. > > >Does this mean I am running etch? > > >I am running kernel 2.6.15.6 > > >If I am not running etch, how can I upgrade without a new installation? > > > > If you started out with testing in your sources.list or if you did a > > dist-upgrade since you included it, then you should indeed be running > > Etch. The fact that you are using a 2.6.15 kernel suggests it, too. > > > > Simply look at the output of "cat /etc/issue" to be sure. Another > > characteristic thing is your version of libc6; "apt-cache policy libc6" > > will tell you what it is and where it came from. > > > > Regards, > > Florian > Hi *, > the way I look at it, you can run a moving-target stream of debian, a > pre-stable stream (aka testing) or a stable 'release' (aka woody,sarge). > if 'stable', 'testing' or 'unstable' are in your sources.list, you are > running a 'moving-target' system. If you run 'etch'(the current > pre-stable) in your list, EVENTUALLY you will be running 'etch' (the > stable release) when it becomes a stable release but until that time it > is really 'testing' and thus 'moving-target' in the meantime. > When a stable stream in released, it exists for a fixed time. > this how I would see it in a time-line: > 2004 2005 2007 > <-unstable,testing,stable---------------> always changing > x-woody----------------------x unchanging > x-pre-sarge------x always changing > | > x-sarge---------------------x unchanging > x-pre-etch-------------x always changing > | > unchanging x-etch----------------x > so by using 'etch', on my diagram I see it as 'pre-etch'. > cheers, > Kev
If you specify "stable", though, the always changing system really moves hardly-at-all most of the time, and then has huge, stability-destroying quantum leaps avery few years. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
