I recently dist-upgraded to Woody, using a script by Osamu Aoki. It took
many hours over ppp,
but it worked. Thanks, Osamu!
And he is right in saying the install of Woody is too easy. Beyond
stumbling onto his post telling about his script very little was
required of me. But now a question:
Part of the upgrade was, of course, upgrading apt-get and dpkg. The
script installed a file
/etc/apt/preferences which had not been there before and gave some brief
instructions about
something called "tracking". I'm guessing this new stuff has something
to do with keeping
track of stable, testing, and unstable all at once. What does this stuff
really do? How does it
work? Where do I look to find out?
Thanks,
Paul