I was under the impression, due to the numberous and strong warnings around woody files on the web site, that there were fundamental differences between releases of debian (slink/potato/woody/...). For example, I wouldn't want a package upgrade to wipe out lilo.conf or fstab, or for other such unpleasantness to occur because I was downloading just the packages and not doing a fresh install or a special upgrade procedure. Is it the case that simply adding a line in sources.list and allowing all of the packages to upgrade will not destroy my installation, mess around with files like fstab and /etc/skel, and such? Or is there a special procedure I should go through to upgrade?
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Anthony Kazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I'm running potato. Is it safe (read, won't screw up the > John> installation) to change the lines in sources.list to refer to > John> woody as well as potato, so that I use a newer version if it's > John> in woody and an older one if it's only in potato? I'm not > John> significantly concerned about problems with the packages > John> themselves (I'm running 2.4.0-test2, why not unstable Debian); I > John> just wanted to make sure that the differences between potato and > John> woody are just package differences and don't require a special > John> process to use the newer packages. Are there any caveats with > John> doing this? (It's difficult for me to recover from an unbootable > John> Linux on this box.) > > What will that do that simply switching to woody wouldn't? > >
