Am 05.12.2016 um 17:13 schrieb Federico Bruni: > Il giorno lun 5 dic 2016 alle 16:54, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> ha > scritto: >> I don't worry about the stability of Debian testing but would like to be >> somewhat assured about the process of switching to it. IIUC it basically >> boils down to switching the package repositories from stable to testing >> and upgrading with apt-get, isn't it? > > Yes, you can find more on the debian wiki. > I updated debian stable to testing only once (it's an upgrade that you > cannot revert). > The transition was smooth. > >> >> So how high should I consider the risks of substantial complications on >> the way? And would I have a way to have apt do some kind of rollback? > > No rollback, as far as I know. > >> >> Maybe there are other risks stemming from the fact that ... my >> current setup doesn't refer to vanilla Debian only but has been >> tailored by the Mint developers? > > I guess more than a risk, but you'd better ask on Mint support channels.
Well, since writing the last email I found several posts on the Mint forums where it is clearly stated that doing this is more or less *guaranteed* to break the installation. And I also found a longer article which made me realize one thing: when I initially installed LMDE it was exactly because it was based on Debian testing, as a rolling release. Obviously they incrementally stepped back until they reached the point of basing on Debian stable, which definitely isn't what I intended. > >> >>> >>> My suggestion is switching to Debian testing. >>> Why did you choose Linux Mint? Because of desktop environments >>> alternative to Gnome which were not available in Debian? >> >> Actually I don't really recall what was the trigger for me to switch. >> Maybe I had some issue with the Debian/Gnome setup I had, or I just >> wanted to try out something different after reading about Mint? >> Anyway I chose LMDE, which is a Mint based on Debian instead of Ubuntu >> repositories. >> I liked the Cinnamon desktop, and maybe that wasn't (isn't) available >> under Debian (then)? >> >> If I don't have to fear transition quirks I'd also be open to try out >> others, though. > > Cinnamon is available in stable and testing as well: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cinnamon > > I would install debian testing from scratch. > What is keeping you from doing so? Migrating your configurations is > boring? Exactly. Recreating the tools I use, partially compiled from source, partially from downloaded packages, partially from the distro's repos. Additionally, I'm not so sure how I should proceed: I have one "smaller" partition with ~30 GB, mounted as "/" and used for the LMDE system. Unfortunately this is marked as the boot partition. Then there's another partition of about the same size where I have currently installed Ubuntu Mate (to test Frescobaldi 3), but I'd happily replace that again with Debian. Questions: a) how to proceed with the boot flag? Can I simply mark the "new" partition as bootable when installing Debian, will I then still be able to boot into LMDE (which I'd want until I know everything works)? b) how would I proceed with the (big) /home partition? What I don't like about dual LInux-Linux boots is sharing a home partition. Well, this is cool, but I find the configuration files disturbing and potentially confusing. Urs _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
