On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:39:12PM -0400, David Clymer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote:
> > After building a debian box with the debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso I
> > want to upgrade this box to unstable. What is the correct way to do
> > this? I'm thinking I have to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to read
> > unstable, but that didn't work.
> >
> > Do I have to --dist-upgrade to testing first then update my sources.list
> > and do another --dist-upgrade to unstable?
>
> My guess is that if you don't know how to do this, then you probably
> lack the skills necessary to deal with breakage that can occasionally
> occur in the unstable branch. If your motivation is to get access to
> more up to date software, I would suggest just running testing ("etch").
> However, you're free to do what you like.
>
> To upgrade to unstable:
>
> 1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that any instances of "stable" or
> "sarge" are replaced with "unstable"
> 2. apt-get update
> 3. apt-get dist-upgrade
I remember, as recently as last year, being advised to do it in stages,
first stable to testing, then testing to unstable.
-- hendrik
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