On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:44:48PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > > Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > non-free > > > > This way you don't have to worry about it. > > Well, you see, my sysadmin style is very "short attention span". I manage > about 10 Debian boxes and I like to keep them up to date by doing the > following: > > run dselect > [U]pdate... clear available list... > [S]elect... and then just hit <return> to make sure we select any > newly-required debs. > [I]nstall... download all, install, remove installed.... > [C]onfig... > [Q]uit > > All in all, this usually takes about 5 minutes of my attention per machine > per update. Also, since I always want my machines on the bleeding edge, I > always want the latest of whatever's available. If I just pointed dselect > and apt to "woody" instead of "unstable", then, in about a year, I "woody" > wouldn't be the latest dist anymore. (I mean, that's the whole reason the > "stable", "frozen", and "unstable" symlinks are there in the first place, > no?)
For someone that wants to stay bleeding edge at all times, I would not have made the recommendation that I did. The person I was replying to did not say that they wanted bleeding edge, and I made the presumption that they did not want bleeding edge. The message I was replying to sounded like they wanted to stay with one particular release - *that* is why I said to point at an actual release name. If, on the other hand, they had stated that they wanted to stay bleeding edge at all times I would have told them to point apt at unstable and have cron run a script containing: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade at whatever interval suits them. Or do it manually as you do. Whatever method works best. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.