On Jun 2, 2011 1:06 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 14:01 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an > > > archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and then to > > > copy back configs and data and to install additional stuff. And what > > > is > > > > Fair enough. Whatever works, works. :) > > > > > Btw. at the moment I can't install libslv2-dev, because there's a > > > dependency missing for Debian stable?! If I should e.g. solve this > > > issue, I won't have to do this again, when a backup is needed. > > > > I had no trouble installing libslv2-dev on any of my squeeze systems. > > Possibly a conflict from another repository? > > Yep, I need to do a fresh Debian testing install. I started with Debian > stable and now I know that I need testing, but I guess I've got an > uncertain mix of stable and testing. >
You can use packages from both (IIRC its a setting in apt.conf). What I'd suggest is to have a test (sandbox) type box (preferably a vm where you can revert to a snapshot) and make your own repository from that that your production hosts use.
