On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:50:28PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:38:49 +0100, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Hi all, > > > > I think I'm ready to upgrade my main desktop machine from stable. > > I've been running stable (with an XF4.3 backport) for months now with > > no problems. Only thing is, I'm starting to run into too many packages > > where I do need new features and fixes. > > > > I'm tempted to go straight to unstable - given the threads that I've read, > > it seems very similar to testing in terms of actual stability. > > > > But - given that this is my _main_ machine, I use it for work all day, > > every day, is this a bad idea? I keep reading of people running > > unstable with no problems. I'd like to turn it around and ask if anyone > > _has_ had any major problems with such an upgrade, and if so what? > > > > A > > > > I have had no problems performing the upgrade from stable to unstable. > > When I have had problems with packages in unstable, for some reason it > always seems to have been with X. (That's an estimated 4 times in > several years, so "always" isn't as dire as it sounds.) I ran debian > unstable for a couple of years at my old job with very little trouble. > > Here's a question for you: how often do you expect to upgrade your > system once you're running unstable? Will you be checking every few > hours to see if anything new is available, or will you be restricting > yourself to upgrading only when you need new features or have received a > pertinent security update? > > The more often you upgrade the system, the more chances there are for a > half-baked package to sneak in. > > -- > monique > Please respond to the group OR to my email, but not both. (Group preferred.)
That's good enough for me. I don't plan to upgrade much at all. I notice that unstable doesn't contain XF4.3 yet. I have the following in sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/freetype/i386/ ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/fontconfig/i386/ ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/libpng/i386/ ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xft/i386/ ./ deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/debconf/i386/ ./ Anyone know offhand if this is going to cause problems? I need XF4.3 as it supports my Radeon 9000. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
