[NBLUG/talk] personal server upgrade... strategy?

[Christopher Wagner]

I should add, as someone who's run a stable/testing hybrid system
before, this can get very messy and is not for the faint of heart. If
this is the style of system you are looking for a desktop, you should
look at Ubuntu which is using Debian packages (with some nifty
customizations) from both stable/testing and you don't have to worry
about juggling tons of packages from different release levels.
Otherwise, I'd suggest picking a release and sticking with it. After
running a hybrid system, I decided to simply go testing (Etch) across
the board and have been quite happy with the results.

- Chris

E Frank Ball wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:53:54AM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
>} > ##change your /etc/apt/sources.list from woody to sarge
>} 
>} 
>} Can I hop in here and ask a newbie question? :-)
>} 
>} It was never clear to me how to change releases in Debian, and the manpages
>} haven't helped me. Could someone at least point me at some website that
>} explains this?
> 
>What Eric said.  Also I set the default release in /etc/apt/apt.conf
>APT::Default-Release "sarge";
>
>This way I can include testing, unstable, and stable in my sources.list
>file.  It will default to sarge/stable, but I can load other versions of
>particular packages using the -t option in apt-get. example:  
>apt-get -t testing install apache
>
>  
>