| Dirk Hartmann 2007-10-14, 1:14 am |
| AJackson wrote:
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>
> Sorry, if you pin at stable, you use Etch now, mixed with old packages
> from Sarge.
> This is not a good situation(tm)
>
> There is only one Woddy, only one Sarge, only one Etch and only one
> Lenny. If you want to be in control when you go between them, you
> should pin at those names, not stable, testing or unstable. If you
> pin at stable, you will always get latest stable. So when they
> released Ech, you was starting to pull packages from Etch instead of
> Sarge.
>
> If those name confuse you, use debian version numbers instead.
> Testing and Unstable never have version numbers.
> So when Debian releases a new version, the old releases gets bumped
> off.
>
> So when Woddy was stabel, Sarge was testing.
> When Sarge went stabel, Etch was new testing. Woody's support was
> dropped after some months
> When Etch went stabel, Lenny is new testing. Sarge's support is
> beeing dropped in some months
>
> So. When a releas gets stabel, it will never change (except for
> security updates).
> So Sarge is no longer stabel, it's an old release that you can install
> if you feal like running old software. All distributions are
> archived, and need to be some 10 years, I think (some licensies demand
> this).
Hello,
at least this should be a new thread about managing distributions. My
opinion is:
I DON'T mix the distributions as mentioned before. In my sources list I only
have entries for sarge (e.g. deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sarge
main). So any apt-get update only considers sarge. And my pinning
preferences guarantee that I am able to decide whether to install
stable/testing/unstable. So with apt-get -ut stable I get sarge stable.
1) Is this correct?
2) Is this a the best system management? Or am I totally wrong?
I assume the other policy would be as I read in a manual:
1) Changing the sources list entries from deb-src
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sarge main to deb-src
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian *stable* main
This makes sure that any time a new distribution is released I get a up to
date stable release. This sounds good. But I preferred the recent years to
keep sarge stable because my computer is old and some features like the
graphical interface are optimized for faster machines (I know this from
friend with older machines which slowed down after upgrading).
To summarize: Is my procedure (the mix of sources list with entries only for
sarge and my pinning-preferences) OK for people who do not want to change a
successful running system?
Or does it contradict to debian philosophy and furthermore causes
conflicts? I didn't experience this and I still guess my way is the best
way for a home user who sees some advantages in using an older stable
version (in a LAN one should surely guarantee to use the latest stable).
But I'm really willing to learn.
Thanks for your patience and your helpful statements.
Best regards
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Dirk Hartmann
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