On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:28, Bill Wohler wrote: > Matthias Szupryczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am thinking to switch from stable to unstable these days. Is this > > advisable at the moment, or is the unstable branch suffering from mayor > > problems right now (libc broken etc.) > > I run testing and grab packages from unstable that are having a hard > time making it over to testing. This is a nice compromise between > stability and bleeding edge. You might consider doing that too.
Thanks, didn't thought about that. > To do this, add both testing and unstable to your sources.list file, > and then create /etc/apt/preferences with the following to track > testing but allow for packages in unstable: I read about this eons ago but forget about it as quickly again. Good point, and as far as I can see, only a handful of packages I need are in sid. I will try that. Thanks again Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
