Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-22 Thread Dale E Martin
FWIW, I run woody + bunk-{1,2} backports plus a very selective few backports.org backports. And then I have a fair number of backports I've done myself. And download.kde.org :-) > that's fine and it may work well for you, but telling yourself that it is > still 'stable' (or even that it is any m

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:01:58AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Well, I'm also a debian developer, and I run stable on all my > machines, with the exception of my development machine. (And use some > backports from backports.org, namely spamassassin, clamav etc.) Ditto for all my servers. I h

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040721 05:55]: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Philipp wrote: > > 2) unstable is, as the debian developers put it, unstable. > > some do. most don't. in fact, most debian developers run unstable on most or > all of their machines. i'm a debian d

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Philipp wrote: > first, thank you for you long and comprehensive answer, but we wont use > unstable. they're your servers, so your choice. i wasn't telling you what you should do, i was informing you that there was another very viable alternative and that

Re: [mailinglists] Re: Trusting Backports and unofficial Repositories

2004-07-20 Thread Philipp
Hi Craig, > > 1) Are you using unofficial repositories on production servers ? > > no, i run unstable on several dozen production servers without a problem. i > find that doing that is an excellent way of both keeping software up-to-date > and also keeping several months ahead of the script-kiddie