On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rodolfo Canet-Castello wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > more bleeding-edge versions. Any problem about that? Should I
> > install woody instead if I intend to use non-stable packages?
> With apt (Debian packa
> The way I do it if I want an unstable package is to add unstable to my
> sources.list,
> apt-get update
> apt-get install -s
> If all looks OK then I go ahead and do it. Sometimes it will want to
> upgrade a whole lot of stuff, in which case I don't do it.
What I do is download the source of t
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> From: Gregory Guthrie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: Going Debian: advice request
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> At 04:43 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > > but
On 11/12/2000 at 15:58 -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> >
> >Woody's definitely unstable...
>
> -- Second that. I have had two installs (upgrades potato -> woody) trip
> over their own dependencies and fail.
>
Well, I made a potato->woody upgrade and it went pretty smooth. Nothing
stopped wor
Hola Rodolfo, salutacions des de Barcelona!
> After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to
> use Debian as my distro and not change anymore.
Good decision! :)
>
> I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled
> distros (RH7, for instance), bu
At 04:43 PM 12/11/2000 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
> but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions.
> Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend
> to use non-stable packages?
Woody's definitely unstable...
-- Second that. I have had two installs (
> but I´d like to have some packages in more bleeding-edge versions.
> Any problem about that? Should I install woody instead if I intend
> to use non-stable packages?
Woody's definitely unstable. You can install various items from
unstable into a potato system. Whether you should go all wood
Rodolfo Canet-Castello wrote:
...
> -How stable is unstable? I'm not running a server, should I go to
> woody directly?
it's very stable. for non-mission-critical machine _I_ wouldn't
hesitate running unstable (and I do run it on my home machine). given
the speed of development you get a lot mor
To answer one of your questions
Once a stable version is released, it only gets updated (primarily) with
security fixes. In other words, you won't see XFree 4.X, etc. in potato.
So potato will never become woody, but rather woody will become "frozen"
for testing, and then "stable" when it's
Hi,
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rodolfo Canet-Castello wrote:
> Hi all
>
> After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to
> use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Would you
> kindly clear some things to me?
>
> I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of
Hi all
After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to
use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Would you
kindly clear some things to me?
I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled
distros (RH7, for instance), but I´d like to have some pac
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