* Steve Kemp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes. What are those? > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44 > > They show you outstanding bugs/changes which will be applied when > you upgrade.
Very cool. Good to know about that. But, I found that my system doesn't have any idea about anything like apt-listbugs. I followed the link in the article and found that there were packages listed for stable and unstable. How does one normally proceed from there? Will there typically be a testing package later? > > One thing that I am now curious about is the setup of sources.list and > > the release of the next stable. For instance, my sources.list was > > initially setup with entries for 'etch' such as "deb > > http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/mirrors/debian/ etch main contrib non-free" I > > have seen online some people have 'testing' where mine says etch. > > Would having etch mean that when the next release of stable comes out, > > which I am gathering will be etch, I will then be running stable? > > Exactly. Very nice. That should make either choice fairly bump free, I would think. Thanks, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
