On Lu, 16 aug 21, 05:10:36, Michael Grant wrote:
> I've been using Testing for about a decade now with very few problems.
> But now I'm moving to Stable. Just wanted to mae sure I'm doing this
> right.
>
> I last updated using Testing on the friday, then the release happened
> on saturday. I
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 16:19:48 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > I included Experimental which probably was a mistake and I probably
> > meant Unstable. (I can see Greg rolling his eyes...)
> >
> > Here's a blog post I was looking at:
On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:43:29 -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> > some people have different goals than i.
>
> You're correct. Though I do have a primary goal to have a stable
> system, I sometimes (albeit it's rare) I need to install package
> that's not in stable, or I need some feature from a
> some people have different goals than i.
You're correct. Though I do have a primary goal to have a stable
system, I sometimes (albeit it's rare) I need to install package
that's not in stable, or I need some feature from a more recent
version of something which is why backports is important
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:07:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> ...
>> >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>> >> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>> >
>> > And this is
tly?
> Whoever is mixing suites should have
> read that. And be prepared to cope with some or other degree
> of brokenness.
No. They shouldn't do it. At all!
It's not OK to mix binary ("deb") repositories for stable and anything
newer than stable if your end goal is, and I quo
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:07:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > ...
> > >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib
> > >> non-free
> > >> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:07:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> ...
> >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
> >> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
> >
> > And this is just stupid. Remove this
Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
>> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>
> And this is just stupid. Remove this immediately.
some of us don't mind trying out more recent versions of
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 08:29:36AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> Ok I added bullseye-updates now, thanks.
>
> What priority should I apply to bullseye-update in preferences?
Get rid of ALL of that crap, if you are running stable.
No pinning. No preferences. (Backports are automatically
> You're missing the "bullseye-updates" repository, but it's optional. If
> the lines above were the only lines in your sources.list, you would be
> doing it correctly.
>
> Bullseye-backports is also optional, and there probably aren't any yet.
> And even when there are some, there's no
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 05:10:36AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> I've been using Testing for about a decade now with very few problems.
> But now I'm moving to Stable.
> sources.list
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main
> contrib non-free
> deb-src
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 05:10:36AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote:
> I've been using Testing for about a decade now with very few problems.
> But now I'm moving to Stable. Just wanted to mae sure I'm doing this
> right.
>
> I last updated using Testing on the friday, then the release happened
> on
I've been using Testing for about a decade now with very few problems.
But now I'm moving to Stable. Just wanted to mae sure I'm doing this
right.
I last updated using Testing on the friday, then the release happened
on saturday. I changed my sources.list as below, did an apt update;
apt
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