> running unstable on a server make any sense? Does it work fairly decent? > The machine is not that critical.
I'll put in my $0.02 even though it's too late as I've see you have upgraded to unstable. I run unstable on my desktop box and others have said, I rarely have problems. On the other hand, I have several servers that I want to be as robust as possible, so I run stable on those. And then I have a collection of boxes that I want mostly stable but I still need newer tools like compilers or whatever - for those I use Adrian bunk's backport collection quite happily. (The /etc/apt/sources.list line is: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free) On my stable servers there are still times when I want a newer version of some specific package, for instance, spamassassin, or my MTA, or whatever. When this happens I usually do one of two things: 1) apt-get build-dep <desired-package> && apt-get source <desired-package> && debuild -uc -us (With an unstable source repository in /etc/apt/sources.list) or 2) Look once again at the backport collection and see if what I'm looking for has been backported. Spamassassin is something Adrian Bunk routinely backports, so I've upgraded it from there in the past. #1 works well for things that don't have lots of versioned build dependencies - I would _think_ that postfix would fall into this category, but you never know. Spamassassin actually build-depends on unstable versions of docbook and stuff like that, but not on anything unstable in it's "normal" dependencies. This makes the backport collection a much more desirable manner of upgrading IMO. Of course, once you've gone down either path, you need to be ultra-conscience of security announcements and figure out a path for dealing with them. So far it's been no big deal for me, but I've been really conservative in upgrading on machines that are on the front-line of the Internet. Hope this helps someone (or is at least semi-interesting to someone) :-) Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]