On Monday 18 December 2006 11:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:59:26AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Saturday 18 November 2006 17:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > > > > I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system. > > > > Testing is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular > > > > example, because it will become stable soon. > > > > > > Upgrades in testing or unstable always risking breaking our system. > > > Once testing is frozen, this possibility greatly diminishes as the > > > threshold to introduce new packages into testing is very high. > > > However, right after release, testing can become a complete disaster > > > for a month or so as all the packages that have accumulated in Sid > > > start propogating into testing. Unfortunately, propogations do not > > > always come in the right order. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > -Roberto > > > > there are problems in my system from my last testing upgrade. Will these > > go away once Etch becomes the stable distro? > > largely. Are you currently pointed at testing or at etch? If at > testing, you might want to change to etch so you don't get caught out. > > my one etch server has really calmed down on the upgrades in the last > couple weeks. Of course, there's not much on there (mail, imap, > various shares, clamav and a couple others...). > > > also, what is the best way to find out when Etch has become stable? > > probably debian-announce. > > A > > > thanks, > > > > tom arnall > > north spit, ca > > > > Make cyberspace pretty: stamp out curly brackets and semicolons. > > > > Relax: the tests extend the compiler. > >
Andrew, Thanks for getting back to me. By 'pointed at Etch', do you mean get rid of the 'testing' addresses and have only 'stable' in 'sources.list'? Hate being a nervous nelly, but it means a lot to me to get a solid os on my machine. I want to be able to promote linux among my friends, but can do this only if I can easily support them. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
