Hi, Tom: On Friday 10 December 2010 12:04:33 Tom Furie wrote: > On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote: > >> As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if > >> you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' > >> now as they are currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable > >> you could change to 'stable', this will allow you to track the stable > >> distribution and it will upgrade to the next stable 'wheezy', when that > >> is released. > > > > I wouldn't suggest that as it can deal to unexpected surprises. > > > > Of course, you can do as you see, but in order to track Stable, I always > > suggest doing it by tracking codename changes, so stay with, say, squeeze > > till you know wheezy has come Stable and you are ready for the upgrade, > > then change the codename on your sources and do it. > > Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list and > automatically upgrading when the new stable is released - all upgrade > issues *should* be worked out by then
Except those that depend on you yourself. Some examples: * Having something more urgent to do right now. * Being unable to take your servers off-line. * Having internal packages that need to be tested. * Having 1000 servers to take care of, so it will take a while to upgrade them all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012130031.03545.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
