Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 June 2017 10:11:40 Michael Milliman wrote: > On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a tr

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. I really enjoy troubleshooting problems, and am not afraid

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:54 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: >> Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. >> Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified >> from pointing to Testing in ant

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. > Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified > from pointing to Testing in anticipation of potential issues. I think > I'll go ah

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Fungi4All
A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. Let's say once a day, at the time you turn on your pc, you usually do updates and upgrades. What if you rev

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 07:03 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: >> Michael Milliman: >>> As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. >>> At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this >>> correct? >> >> No, that

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: > Michael Milliman: > > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > > correct? > > No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. >

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Siard
Michael Milliman: > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > correct? No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. Depending on how you configure /etc/apt/sources.list, you can either

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/01/2017 05:38 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently running Stretch, and have been for a couple of months. As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this correct? If so, how disastro

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-01 Thread deloptes
Michael Milliman wrote: > Hi folks,  I'm currently running Stretch, and have been for a couple of > months.  As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of > weeks.  At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing.  Is > this correct? If so, how disastrous might it be fo