What are the proper lines to put in /etc/apt/sources.list to upgrade from stable to testing? I seem to recal someone on the list saying to replace the lines for stable with:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free but this will also get packages from unstable, which I would prefer not to do at this time. If I do make these changes and do an 'apt-get update/upgrade' then apt wants to upgrade 188 packages on my box, add 40 some packages and delete 11 packages. If I only have the line for testing in my sources.list then 'upgrade' only wants to change 7 packages and 'dist-upgrade' also updates only 7 packages and wants to delete 3 others. There is much that simply does not exist in testing that is in stable and unstable. I thought that testing was a complete set of packages, but this does not seem to be the case. Can anyone explain exactly the way packages flow through the system, including when a new release becomes stable? > If you don't want to be running year-old software (with the latest security > fixes backported), switch over to testing instead. It's both pretty solid > and pretty recent. But if you want/need the absolute reliability of stable, > that takes time. If it takes a year to produce that stability, then the code > will be a year old when it's released and, short of spending lots of money to > buy testing and bugfixing time, there's nothing anyone can do about it. -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at: unless your wife shoots you." http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker, Little Hungary Farm Winery