On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Heather Stern wrote: > > Then tweak your /etc/apt/sources.list file so it points at "woody" > instead of the word "potato" or "stable". I say "woody" because we are > close to freeze, and when it really does freeze, some other name will be > assigned to testing, but you'll probably want to stick with the fresh > release for at least a little while. >
Technically woody has been frozen since 1 May or thereabouts (and base section since before that). The delay since then has been mainly in setting up security infrastructure for future security releases of the newly released woody. And then the actually recent security bugs in apache and ssh are what's kept it from having been already released before today (the security infrastructure (automated secure build machines for all architectures) is now done; you might say the apache/ssh problems provided a good test for the new security build system). The point I'm getting to is that woody is already effectively stable. So for people considering a new installation, you might as well feel free to use Woody pre-release CDs (only make sure they are ones made after May 1, ones before then were still buggy). Oops, I should qualify that advice by pointing out that /etc/apt/sources.list from a woody install will point to "stable" anticipatorily, which means it will point to potato, until woody really does become officially stable. So Heather's advice about changing /etc/apt/sources.list to refer to woody is still important :) But anyway, Jay, if you already have a potato install CD, you might as well just use it. It'll work :) Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
