Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stabl

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stable (or frozen?), where > testing

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 22:40, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Once preparations are complete, potato will be cut from "testing," > undergo a freeze in which only major bug fixes are allowed on the > branch, and then it will be released. At this point, potato will > become "stable". s/potato/woody/ - potato

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > I wasn't "confused," I was hosed, and it is hardly a unique event. I > had another machine that was quite happily working fine, and it had > sources.list pointing to "stable." One day "stable" changed to potato > and not long after that that machine got

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:12, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Am I the only one that favors using the actual names rather than the > > aliases? I used unstable for a while, then, with no warning, > > unstable was bumbed from woody to a very broken sid, and that > > machine got

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:12, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 01:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > > > My sources list currently holds the following: > > > > > > deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > > > deb http://non-us.de

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 01:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I've been having trouble getting X to run on my Lombard powerbook, and I > > hope that if I update my install to woody things will get a little > > easier. > > > > I'd be grateful to know what I should change in m

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 01:24, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've been having trouble getting X to run on my Lombard powerbook, and I > hope that if I update my install to woody things will get a little > easier. > > I'd be grateful to know what I should change in my sources list to do > this. Presum

upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-29 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I've been having trouble getting X to run on my Lombard powerbook, and I hope that if I update my install to woody things will get a little easier. I'd be grateful to know what I should change in my sources list to do this. Presumably I then simply run apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade?