Greetings, Sarge/Testing doesn't offer any guarantees either. For about 3+ weeks there php4 was not able to be installed due to dependencies and was automatically removed with a dist-upgrade, which impeded a few things. At the same time request-tracker was causing trouble as well, requiring a bit of coding and extra config.
The trick seems to be take particular attention to when you update (particularly with upgrade and dist-upgrade) and watch the bugs lists on the debian website(the bugs lists occasionally solve or work around the bug and not just highlight it). Perhaps you can have a sacrificial lamb type arrangement where you can check any update before putting the updates on your pride and joy. Install two instances of Sid/Unstable and leap frog the updates over each so that there is always at least one 'good' instance. But ultimately you don't really feel alive unless you're facing a little bit of danger. Plus it's a bloody good way to learn a few new tricks when you have to scramble to fix a broken package. If it doesn't go smoothly then there's always the grin and bare it approach until the offending package is up and running again. Matt Enjoy! -----Original Message----- From: Christian Lyra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unstable 'sid' release Hi, I have been using SID for some time (almost 2 years) on a compaq 1200 notebook. It's nice to have the last version of packages, but I got in trouble a few times. For example, I did a upgrade yesterday, and found that the libxft2 seems to be broken, so my kdm is unusable and everything that uses xft2 to render fonts looks very ugly. I know that in a week this must be solved, but be warned that things can go wrong when apt-get upgrade. You should consider to use testing as this seems to be more stable but yet has almost all the new packages. This is the price to live on a the edge :-) Christian Lyra On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Steffen Elste wrote: > Hi, > got 'unstable' running on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for quite a while ... > and am perfectly happy with it! Transition from Karolina's KDE > packages to the 'official' ones wasn't really smooth but manageable, > apart from that no complaints. The notebook at work (Fujitsu Siemens > E7010) causes a bit of a headache - can't get sound to work (alsa, the > kernel sound module is fine). > > Steffen Elste > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
