On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:56:15PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:46:22PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > > Inexperienced question - I'm running Sarge, with newer ClamAV from > > volatile and newer SpamAssassin from backports. When I'm ready to > > upgrade to Etch, I assume I don't need the backports and volatile > > entries in sources.list? Will ClamAV and SA get upgraded as part of > > the upgrade to Etch, or is this more complicated now because the > > versions I am using are from volatile and backports? > > > The answer is (of course) "it depends." > > As a matter of policy, Debian does not officially support upgrades with > third party packages. There would be far too many combinations of > packages. In general, however, upgrading with backported packages works > out just fine. > > If the versions in Etch are newer than your volatile and backports > versions, then everything will happen automatically. If you have done > anything non-standard (like pinning), then things can get more > complicated. >
Also note Etch's release notes: debian-volatile is now an official repostory with a new URL. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
