On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2012 18:23:37 Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen >> >> <mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> > On 25.05.2012 15:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:37 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main >> >>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main >> >>> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main >> >>> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main >> >> >> >> You're issue is related to the sid repository. If you need something >> >> from sid, then uncomment it and after that comment it. Don't feel secure >> >> using pinning. >> >> >> >> You can name the repositories "stable" instead of "squeeze", so it will >> >> use "stable" what ever Debian "stable" is named. >> > >> > Is it safe to use "stable" instead of "squeeze"? Are there usually any >> > conflicts or anything what would need "full-upgrade" whenever new >> > "stable" is named? >> >> No. >> >> No need for "aptitude full-upgrade", even "apt-get upgrade"/"aptitude >> safe-upgrade" will pull in wheezy (partially) when it becomes >> "stable". > > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code name in > my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code name when I > want to get the more recent version. So, Squeeze not stable, Muhammad. you > could get in quite a mess at the changeover point from Squeeze to Wheezy if > you have stable in your sources.list, as several people have pointed out.
if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything. should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-upgrade" will not crash my system if using squeeze. because what i am worried about here is system crash. > > I can't comment on your Windows analogies as I don't use Windows. I think > that you need to expect that Linux will be different from whatever you used > in Windows. They are very different OSs. > > FWIW, I do most of my admin from the CLI, including updating and upgrading. > So yes, it can be done from the CLI. > > Lisi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205252130.54213.lisi.re...@gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfM=s3FrC=yzgk+d3bvg7jm64kks_p_xvcy8mcfogj6v...@mail.gmail.com