Please cool off, I don't see the need for a flame war. Greg Wooledge: > You forgot to reply to the list.
Maybe I was replying to you > You forgot to stop top-quoting. This is a real mailing list, not your > workplace where you have to do everything upside-down. That would be correct if I had replied to the list > Here is a jessie source: > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > Here is a stretch source: > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free But I have http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main and don't change it what will happen? >> If on the original installation of Jessie you switch from >> main to testing you are running stretch, right? Like I said > You DO NOT touch the word "main". You change the word "jessie". But I am saying I already have (jessie to testing not main, my fault), I had switched jessie to testing (because I read somewhere that is how to do it) not inquiring any further on what this means. >> I am just trying to verify I will be doing the >> right thing and not mess up and end up in sid and have no way back. > > Then don't use "sid" or "unstable". > Perpetual is an English word. It means "never-ending" or "eternal". > > If you use "testing" instead of "stretch", then you are perpetually > stuck in testing, never to stabilize, always half-broken. My "testing" has been running fine, better than stable for some odd reason. Maybe all that upgrading and replacing has fixed some mess a temporary trial of cinnamon had created. I guess installing desktops, using them, then discarding the installation can create problems. > I don't speak GUI. I hope you don't speak the same English out on the street, because it is not like a list, it is very mean, that street thing. You must be polite and respectful to survive in the real world. Why type commands when clicking menus can get you by? I am not a developer, I am just a user, in a user list, using debian GUIs, not some non-free admin software. > because that's usually how people do things: edit file, > run commands. I will stick to guidom, thank you! > I don't know or care what happens if you alter the file from within > synaptic. I didn't even know that was POSSIBLE. Yes, on the top menu on the column Settings --> Repositories it has 4 lines/fields where a source can be added or modified. (bin or src) (.....debian.org) (jessie) (main contrib non-free) This is where I had taken jessie out and added testing. Swell ... ! My mistake it seems is that I thought the addresses for the repositories were specific to jessie not across all the editions. That was my interest for clarification. Now I understand it a little bit better. If my original installation was wheezy and I had replaced the word with testing I would be in stretch by now, but not for long. Right? > I can't imagine why someone would attempt to do system administration > with a GUI. Even if you somehow manage to jump through the hoops > required to get a GUI process running as root to communicate with your X > server in a session run by yourself, you're still doing sysadmin work > while in X, which is not likely to end well. I didn't know this. I have spent countless hours reading manuals on how to run my system but never did I realize that this was true. I always thought of myself as a user, not a sysadmin. But I see what you are saying. I specifically asked for suggestions on what to do to edit my repository list on synaptic, I think, why are you responding then? > Don't the release notes strongly advise that you do release upgrades > OUTSIDE of X? I thought they did. It's been a while since I read them. No, I have not seen this before. I run Debian 7 32bit in a beaten old P4 laptop for a while before I attempted this and that laptop is still on 7 and is running fine. It was always updated and the repositories were never changed. That was my fix for my friend's WinXP old laptop that had a bad disk. He could type his resume and apply for jobs, get into chromium, play with facebook, and watch youtube. I am now sis-the-admin! I see it every three months and do an update on it. No reason to break a good thing, > I just can't see why it matters. If you don't intend to perform the > upgrade, don't change the file. I hope you do see now that I would have to change, if not, I still did not understand what you are saying. If testing is already in there (and has been for a while) and I update weekly once stretch is released I will be in nowhere-land in the neverlands (debian 10?). I panicked when I thought of it and I wanted to double check before I mess something up. I mistakenly thought that the addresses of the repositories would be different for stretch than for (jessie --> testing). I see now that they are not. Katrin PS I am on the "users" list right, not the "sysadmins" list?
