Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread John Hasler
Experimental is not a complete release. It's whatever the developers want to make available for people to try but that they don't think is ready for Unstable. You could probably set up a complete OS including the DE of your choice using it but you are likely to spend most of your time debugging.

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Weaver
On 2015-06-24 23:23, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 23:11 +1000, Weaver wrote: Right! In that case, it sounds as though /etc/apt/sources.list is arranged differently then. Any clues in regard to that? Not really, by default it is pinned so you need to explicitly tell it to grab p

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Weaver
On 2015-06-24 23:36, Jape Person wrote: On 06/24/2015 08:51 AM, Weaver wrote: Greetings all. I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for a

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Jape Person
On 06/24/2015 08:51 AM, Weaver wrote: Greetings all. I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for any advice to this slow and ancient learne

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 23:11 +1000, Weaver wrote: > Right! > > In that case, it sounds as though /etc/apt/sources.list is arranged > differently then. > Any clues in regard to that? Not really, by default it is pinned so you need to explicitly tell it to grab packages from experimental # apt-get

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Weaver
On 2015-06-24 23:03, Sven Hartge wrote: Weaver wrote: I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for any advice to this slow and ancient l

Re: experimental.

2015-06-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Weaver wrote: > I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to > experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is > there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for any > advice to this slow and ancient learner. Experimental is no comple

Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 11 May 2014 22:54:20 +0200 schreef Javier Barroso : Hello, On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Floris wrote: Hey, The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But there are s

Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Floris wrote: > > Hey, > > The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd > + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But > there are some 3.12 packages only available in experimental. Is there a

Re: [experimental] Do not upgrade libpng12 today - (20 May 12)

2012-05-20 Thread paivakil
Camaleón writes: > Sid also? It still has version 1.2.49 :-? Thanks for pointing out - it is experimental only. I always do a '-t experimental' upgrade, and rarely bother whether the package comes from sid or experimental. >> I am yet to get a bug number, but posting this in hope that other

Re: [experimental] Do not upgrade libpng12 today - (20 May 12)

2012-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 May 2012 18:44:54 +0530, paivakil wrote: > Warning to those running sid / experimental. Sid also? It still has version 1.2.49 :-? > I have filed a bug against libpng12-0. it causing a total failure of at > least kde on my sytem (AMD64 architecture). kde, kdm, iceweasel, etc > crashes.

Re: Experimental kernel on sid

2010-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 20 dec 10, 09:20:31, Brad Alexander wrote: > It's been a long time since I went off-grid and used a kernel from > experimental. So forgive me, my memory is not what it used to be. > > Here is my problem: > > I don't see a 2.6.36 kernel for amd64, however the kbuild for 2.6.36 > is availabl

Re: Experimental kernel on sid

2010-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brad Alexander wrote: It's been a long time since I went off-grid and used a kernel from experimental. So forgive me, my memory is not what it used to be. Here is my problem: I don't see a 2.6.36 kernel for amd64, however the kbuild for 2.6.36 is available. I also see a 2.6.37rc5 kernel for amd

Re: Experimental repo

2009-07-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:02:49PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Quite honestly, if you are asking this question, you may not be ready > > for experimental. Please read following first: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html > > That link just generates a huge

Re: Experimental repo

2009-07-04 Thread JoeHill
JoeHill wrote: > > Quite honestly, if you are asking this question, you may not be ready > > for experimental. Please read following first: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html > > That link just generates a huge error dialogue in my browser. My fault, ba

Re: Experimental repo

2009-07-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 08:37:14PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > For apt pinning, if I want to add the experimental repo, do I also need to add > the qualifiers for 'non-free', 'restricted', etc.? > > or is it simply > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main Check this URL yourself to

Re: Experimental repo

2009-07-04 Thread JoeHill
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 08:37:14PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > For apt pinning, if I want to add the experimental repo, do I also need to > > add the qualifiers for 'non-free', 'restricted', etc.? > > > > or is it simply > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experiment

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> >>> M.Lewis wrote: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Expe

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> M.Lewis wrote: >>> Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony >>> (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without >>> upgrading my entire system to Experimental? >> Just add experimental d

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > M.Lewis wrote: >> >> Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony >> (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without >> upgrading my entire system to Experimental? > Just add experimental distribution in your sources.list a

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-23 Thread M.Lewis
John Hasler wrote: M. Lewis writes: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Easily. chrony_1.23-6rt1, the new version in Experimental, is just chrony_

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-23 Thread John Hasler
M. Lewis writes: > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Easily. chrony_1.23-6rt1, the new version in Experimental, is just chrony_1.23-6, the versio

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
M.Lewis wrote: > > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Just add experimental distribution in your sources.list and then install it with '-t experim

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2008-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-22 23:10 +0100, M.Lewis wrote: > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? The easiest way is to download it from http://packages.debian.org/e

Re: 'experimental' distro?

2003-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:12:29PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:45:51PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main > > Would this not be slightly cleaner: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/project experi

Re: 'experimental' distro?

2003-08-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:45:51PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main Would this not be slightly cleaner: deb http://http.us.debian.org/project experimental main or am I goofin

Re: 'experimental' distro?

2003-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:42:49PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Okay, I give. > How do I set up my sources.list to find the experimental > distributions... > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free > > does not work... > Quoting /usr/share/doc/develpers-r

Re: 'experimental' distro?

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:42:49PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: | Okay, I give. | How do I set up my sources.list to find the experimental | distributions... | | deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free | | does not work... deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian