On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 10:45 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I have been following this thread as I am working on switching to > > Debian, and have just these questions: > > > > If I install Debian stable and have "stable" in the sources.list file, > > will updates keep happening, even across releases? I think it would be > > great it I never had to reinstall, yet could still have a completely > > up-to-date system. > > > > Also, is the same true for unstable and testing? > > ... > > There are three (well 4 with experimental, 5 with oldstable) targets > you can point at stable, testing and unstable. If you point at one of > these you will always point at one of these. If you choose stable, you > will always be stable, which means yes, when the next stable is > released you will point to it and suffer through a massive, though > supposedly smooth, upgrade. You can also point to the release names: > woody (oldstable), sarge (stable), etch (testing) or sid > (unstable). If you point at the release name, you will follow that > release through its cycle. that means essentially that you won't > suffer through a massive "all-at-once" sort of upgrade like you would > see if you tracked stable. But it also means you will gradually drift > more and more out of date, especially once your release becomes > stable. Once it moves into stable, you only get security fixes, more > or less and then once you move into oldstable, probably less. So if > you point to etch (currently testing) it will eventually settle down, > move into stable and then ultimately oldstable. The exception to this > is sid. sid always points to unstable. > > A
I have Debian running on another drive now, and have another question. When I update the system using aptitude, the "mark upgradeable packages" (or similar) option in the menu will mark all the packages to update. Then I can see what it is planning on doing. This is a limited update like running "aptitude upgrade", right? How can I do the equivalent of "aptitude dist-upgrade" in the aptitude program, so I can see what it will do at a full release upgrade? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
