-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Wei Chen: >> But I once heard that things in the "Testing" distribution always change >> gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the >> upgrade not so easy after some time of the release of stable. Is that true? > > Yes, more or less. If you do upgrades, there is always a chance that > some package needs special attention because of changes in config files > etc. And the more packages you upgrade at a time, the more likely it is > that you have encounter such package upgrades. But generally, this > amounts to the same work that you have have to do when upgrading daily, > the only difference is that you have to do it all at once. > > But waiting has the advantage that you are less likely to encounter > serious problems and that the upgrade path of each package has been > tested and maybe even polished up a bit. > > J.
Yes. I agree with you. In this way a lot of upgrades that are in the middle of the way can be saved. And those ones can actually cause problems. Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGETjWCIqXQV6BF28RAiMUAKCnZkWbuUtKZEvG/DOBQQI3BPBmAACeNXRc +3JDdoa5w+bxCqoMF8o05g8= =As1S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]