-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:25:16 -0700 (PDT) > Land Haj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before >> it became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will >> have 0 time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use >> stable instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in >> the next few days, and I would very much appreciate some advice: >> >> * If I install testing today and change apt sources to stable when >> etch is done (and do 'aptitude dist-upgrade'), will I have the same >> installation as I would have if I had waited to do a clean stable >> install? > > Just change the apt sources to 'etch' (if the installer doesn't do > it for you). Then you will have testing now and stable after etch is > released, without having to change anything. > > But there is another possibility you should consider. Rather than > reinstalling, you could change your apt sources right now, run 'apt-get > update' (or the aptitude equivalent), and install apt-show-versions. > Then run the following command: > > apt-show-versions | grep -v /etch | sort > > How many of your installed packages differ from those it etch? Can you > not remove them, then install them again from the etch repository? > > [...] >
It seems people have blinders on today. He said he wanted to use the 32-bit version and he currently uses the 64-bit version. One can't downgrade a system from 64-bit to 32-bit easily. IMO, one would be better off re-installing. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAnSciXBCVWpc5J4RAp3yAJ9E5PNmLZ4uRrqalMzsDgPYD19AQwCgrNRf vsUWQzcjbUy1mT/YTpbHi9M= =Raj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
