Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:25:48PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > Also, no new installer this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have > > been the biggest bottleneck. > > How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was rea

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Angelina Carlton wrote: How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. The only problem I had with the network installer is that it was not able to find the sites to download the necessary files from. Then again

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 23:25, Angelina Carlton wrote: > How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks > before sarge was released. Just curious. Not sure myself, but I'm guessing the installer held things back for a long time, and while that was happening, people decided to

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Angelina Carlton
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Also, no new installer this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have > been the biggest bottleneck. How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. -- Angelina Carlton

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > How long will Etch be in testing? > > When are the next summer olympics? ;-) > > But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge > because the number of supported architectures are being reduced f

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > When, and for what reasons, will Etch become frozen? > > > > See above for when but it's the project leader that ultimately determines > when etch is good enough to be released. Uhm, no, it's the release manag

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: > But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge > because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven > to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release cycle. Also, no new installer this

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Colin
Matthijs wrote: > How long will Etch be in testing? When are the next summer olympics? ;-) But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release cyc

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Matthijs
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:40:11 +0200, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > >For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. > >Currently, I am running an "unstable" machine (I have unstable in > >sources.list

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Steve Block, > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > >For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. > >Currently, I am running an "unstable" machine (I have unstable in > >sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an "unstable" machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If someone has "sid" in sources.list,

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Grant
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:22:38 -0400 Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to > > specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. >

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to > specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. > For example, woody, sarge, sid, etc. > > It is much more apparent, that way, what the i

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Roberto C. Sanchez told: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of > > Robert Cates told: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > not being with Debian long enough to have gone through t

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of > Robert Cates told: > > > Hi all, > > > > not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm > > wanting > > to know what I need to do to my current Woody inst

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:09 +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Wouldn't that cause an upgrade to Sarge? Change your sources.list file: For your woody installed machine use woody not stable, and for your sarge installed machine use sarge not testing... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Wulfy
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: Hi all, not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm wanting to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation (ie, source.list file) to keep using apt-get update/

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: > Hi all, > > not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm > wanting > to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation (ie, source.list > file) to keep using apt-get update/upgrade.(?) Just pu