Re: [Sheflug] debian potato / woody / ...

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:10:45PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:12:01PM +0100, Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote:
> > 	If you have 2.2rX, and a woody mirror, change your
> > /etc/apt/sources.list. Where it says stable (or 2.2r2 or whatever),
> > write "unstable". My sources.list looks like this:
> 
> Jose, "unstable" is "sid", not "woody"!! You're behind the times mate!

	Hhmmm... quite true. Boredom induces these sort of errors :-)

> I really don't recommend using unstable... they fsck glibc too many times
> for my liking... :))

	I don't update it that often. However, it was needed at some
point (can't remember what for), and has so far remained in unstable.
glibc broke a couple of times, but I don't usually dist-upgrade, just
"pick and mix".

> I also see you have a sources.list more cutting edge than all the knives in
> Sheffield... I have to say though, I'll be snarfing that Mozilla source, I
> usually just get the binary .tar.gz and install it on all my machine (Deb or
> not Deb), but then I loose the deps..

	As said above, treated with caution, unstable is fine.  And the
bugs I have found have been solved in 2 days maximum, which is nice :-)

	Having said that, the web servers which are being used for
serious work use stable.

	Regards, and apologies for my lack of attention!
	José
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