Paul E Condon wrote: >>I would highly recommend leaving your sources.list pointing at etch until >>after >>the freeze is over, then point at testing. Upgrading across releases (for >>that >>is what will happen if you track testing) can cause some bizarre problems now >>and then. > > I think the reasoning here is backwards. Etch will one day become > stable. When this happens, Sarge will become something else in the > naming scheme, probably oldstable. There will be, for the people who > run stable, a dist-upgrade necessary at that time, if they want to > move to the new stable. But for people who are following Etch,there > will be no need to do anything.
I did not say anything regarding this scenario. > Similarly, but differently, people who choose to run testing now > will, when Etch becomes stable, continue to be using the new testing > which for a few hours, will be identical to the new stable. So, they > also do no dist-upgrade to stay with their choice of distribution. That is correct. However when sarge was released, I was tracking testing, meaning that I jumped right into etch. I recall this having very ill effects that lasted until I reinstalled etch. Now I am tracking etch, and plan on doing so until several days after etch is released at which point I will upgrade to whatever is then testing. It seems (though I cannot confirm this from knowledge of packaging) that certain things happen on a release that can be skipped if you directly upgrade from a testing distribution to a newer testing distribution. At least it did a fair job of nuking my box. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL++++ P++++$ L+++>++++ E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(--)>--- !r>+++ y->+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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