On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:01:45AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > >I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable > > >(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package > > >dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of > > >entire suites of packages there) Please correct me if I am wrong on > > >any of these details. > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you use Sid, you _will_ have a broken system from time to time. > > On Sarge, I've merely had the occasional broken package. > > I have had the other experience. I've had less problems running Sid > than Testing. But that might just due to the (random) times I decided > to do my dist-upgrades.
So it looks as if I should set up sarge in my spare partition,, and when it becomes stable in a few months, replace my woody with sid. This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and upgrade, or new install. -- hendrik > > -- > Bill Moseley > [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]
