On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed > with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on > all my machines very shortly. > > I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for > testing purposes. From what I'm reading, it's probably not that far > off that Sarge becomes the stable version (I *THINK* I'm understanding > how it works), Sid becomes the testing version, and there will be a > new unstable version (please correct me if I misunderstand). > > Sometime after that, I'll want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge on my > base machine; a few months after that, I'll consider moving my test > machine to Sid.
I'm no expert, but I think this is not quite right. At the moment, Woody = stable, Sarge = testing, and Sid = unstable. *my understanding* is that, after Sarge becomes stable, it will look like this: Sarge = stable, ??? = testing, Sid = unstable In other words, I think Sid will remain the cutting edge distro of the debian system. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!) What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for developers, not users. It's "the stuff they're working on for the next release of stable," not necessarily "the stuff that's more stable than unstable but newer than stable." This is a subtle but important difference. For example, security updates will make it into testing *after* they make it into both unstable and stable. > What is the procedure for this type of an upgrade? IOW, what commands > would be given to apt to move the machine to the next version? Make sure your system is up to date relative to your current distro, then read: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
