[oclug] Debian updating (Was: Good Point)

[Seung-woo Nam]

Although apt-get works great and that seems to be one of the main reasons why
there are so many hard core debian fans. But sometimes it becomes kind of
addictive and you just have to see apt-get doing something exciting so you go
ahead and put unstable in sources.list :-) At least that's how I got into
trouble when I did that when woody was still unstable. Although my experience
with Debian is pretty short, I think unstable is unstable and it's meant for
the developers or at least hard core testers.

Seung-woo Nam

Jonathan Earle wrote:

> It's been a few months since I last did an upgrade.  I don't know what you
> mean by a simple upgrade, or an upgrade to a new version - I reference the
> 'unstable' branch in my sources.list file (and have for months) if that
> helps define which upgrade path I'm on.  It seemed simple enough at the time
> (apt-get update and then upgrade/dist-upgrade), which is probably why I keep
> getting myself hopelessly mired in doodoo with Debian. :)
>
> I wish it were only one or two - I'd note those down and force 'em back in
> later.  I've got bout 90 that want to be removed, and I think that's a bit
> unreasonable.
>
> Cheers!
> Jon