-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/11 09:05, Paul Wise wrote: > Alternatively you might want to install from testing directly. Not > everything from testing is installable on stable, which is where > backports comes in.
Installing testing for the whole system is no option. The base system (the core packages) should be provided by the most recent release. I don't want to get an unbootable system. > > If you install from testing directly you will need some apt pinning: > > http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences > > Set your /etc/apt/preferences to the below and cherry-pick packages > from testing (or squeeze-backports/unstable/experimental). You will > probably encounter dependency issues, conflicts and compatibility > bugs, but apt-get upgrade will where installed, upgrade packages > within testing. Switch to a backport to avoid those issues. > This sounds like a lot of manual work. I can do that for my own desktop PC, but not for all the desktops and servers in the office. I would prefer if Debian distinguishes between core and main instead. This means splitting the current main repository. In the new system the main/testing packages should be _guaranteed_ to work together with the most recent core/stable packages. Of course they should also work together with core/testing, as they do now. Making this scheme work would imply more frequent releases for the core packages, but I am sure this can be done. I would expect that we would get <1000 core packages. Hopefully its OK if I post my ideas here? Actually this is about release management, not about development. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3p6PYACgkQUTlbRTxpHjdidwCfYWqYYAQIL8oiGrxb+psVX8nf 2PwAnR15E6Juy3N0p/mtbYV8y34CLw98 =Kalf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de9e8fa.3060...@afaics.de
