Doing further installations and tests I find myself still not (yet) convinced just by being told d-i will do the right thing. I have a cuple of questions, maybe somone could help a bit.
In order to use and test sarge I did the installations from the prerelease (beta) _sarge_-netinst d-i CD. I'd like my (inhouse) systems to be sarge now and automaticly stable upon official release. That is the behaviour I would have expected from a "Sarge Installer CD". OTOH a "Testing Installer CD" would be fine tracking testing forever. OK here are my questions: -- Will the entries in sources.list that are all pointing to testing (exept for the cdrom entry) be changed to stable the moment sarge is released? ( s/testing/stable) So that no further testing updates can be drawn in accidentially. (I recognize a stable/update security entry is already there, but not sufficient) -- Will the choose mirror funktion (apt-setup) only generate entries pointing to stable upon release date? -- What would be wrong with having the apt-setup on sarge CDs default to sarge now? Making sure that explicit sarge CDs will still install a, then stable, sarge system later, and that sarge systems installed now will stay with sarge and not update to the ongoing testing after release. (For the sarge+1release situation see below.) -- The default can be changed from sarge to stable just as it needs to be changed from testing to stable now, only that it is far less time critical. 1. default apt-setup to point to sarge on sarge CDs etc. now. (I assume this is a simple config option) 2. change apt-setup default to stable for release. (As usual, just that it used to be a change from testing to stable) 3. provide a security update that changes apt-setup's config to default to stable instead of sarge and s/sarge/stable in sources.list This would only affect systems that have been previously installed (prerelease sarge), or may be installed later from one of the many prerelease d-i sarge CDs that are around now. (This update should not time be critical at all, as long as sarge+1 is not expected to be released too early.) Regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
