Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"? -- follow-

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: A follow-up question: If you install the current sarge stable release, can you install deb packages from any earlier releases? That is, either earlier stable or testing deb packages? What's the hierarchy here: sarge stable, ea

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
production machine, I ran sarge as testing for about a year now, and I haven't updraded to etch yet. I normally maintain a dual-boot configuration with a choice of stable or testing. At the moment my woody system (which was stable) won't access the net, presumably becuse it doesn't hav

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
On 12 Jul 2005 at 1:02, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > >Dear kamaraju: > > > >Thank you again. One last question: > > > >If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new > >debian package for some application, how do you decide whether > >to install it or n

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear kamaraju: Thank you again. One last question: If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new debian package for some application, how do you decide whether to install it or not? Does apt-get take care of all that automatically? Thank you. Benjam

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:38:11PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new > debian package for some application, how do you decide whether > to install it or not? Does apt-get take care of all that > automatically? In general, unless there

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear kamaraju: Thank you again. One last question: If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new debian package for some application, how do you decide whether to install it or not? Does apt-get take care of all that automatically? Thank you. Benjamin On 11 Jul 2005 at 22:

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Kamaraju: Thank you so much for the clear presentation. You can always update from sarge to Etch. But you cannot go from Etch to Sarge. raju That's a key point! So it makes sense to install Sarge and then update to Etch. One last question: Is this updat

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: "Sarge" is now the STABLE release and "etch" is now the TESTING release. That is correct. I would like to download the testing release so I would get the latest possible versions of Debian packages. I imagine that if I installed the stable release, that I would have

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Leonid and friends: So you would recommend installing the new "etch" testing distro? Is an iso image available of the "etch" testing release? That's what I find confusing. Since "sarge" is not longer "testing" but "stable", which testing are we talking about and where are the iso images f

Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"? -- follow-up

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: A follow-up question: If you install the current sarge stable release, can you install deb packages from any earlier releases? That is, either earlier stable or testing deb packages? What's the hierarchy here: sarge stable, earlier stable, earlier testing, etc. Quite con

Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"? -- follow-

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: A follow-up question: If you install the current sarge stable release, can you install deb packages from any earlier releases? That is, either earlier stable or testing deb packages? What's the hierarchy here: sarge stable, earlier stable, earlier testing, etc. Quite con

Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I would like to download and install the latest Debian 3.1, but even after a careful reading of all the info on the Debian site, I am quite confused. "Sarge" is now the STABLE release and "etch" is now the TESTING release. I would like to download the testing release so I would

Re: Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:30:22PM +0100, @(none) wrote: > Stable, but should it not be described in /etc/apt/sources.list as woody > iso stable? > So that at rollovertime (real soon now (tm)), > stable=woody-->stable=sarge there are no unexpected upgrades. That would depend what you wanted to h

Re: Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-09 Thread @(none)
Stable, but should it not be described in /etc/apt/sources.list as woody iso stable? So that at rollovertime (real soon now (tm)), stable=woody-->stable=sarge there are no unexpected upgrades. mvg Boudewijn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-02 Thread dev
uchanan wrote: > > Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am > > only just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'? > > You guessed correctly - production servers definitely should use stable. > If you need a mor

Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:37:28AM +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am only > just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'? If you

Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-01 Thread Adam Aube
On Sunday 01 February 2004 05:37 pm, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am > only just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'? You guessed correctly - production servers definitely should

Re: stable or testing?

2004-02-01 Thread Brett Carrington
live servers one by > one My question is: > > Should i be using stable or testing for the live servers? Be aware i am only > just getting to grips with 'the debian way'... I guessing 'stable'? Stable stable stable. Stable is the only release that is 100% sure to g

stable or testing?

2004-02-01 Thread Simon Buchanan
Being a post-redhat user, i have downloaded the 'testing' version of debian, installed on my test bench, then on the in-house development server and am VERY impressed! So the next step is to go after our 4 live servers one by one My question is: Should i be using stable or testi

Re: server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this > sort of application, even though tha

Re: server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-06 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030705] Johann Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I run a small server, does http/ssh/imap, pretty much just for me. Yes, > smtp is locked down. No spam from here :-P. > > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand t

Re: server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Johann Koenig wrote: > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this stable. testing has the disadvantage that it could be broken and you could wait for security updates _much_ longer than peopl

server version, stable or testing?

2003-07-05 Thread Johann Koenig
I run a small server, does http/ssh/imap, pretty much just for me. Yes, smtp is locked down. No spam from here :-P. I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this sort of application, even though thats what I

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:19:10AM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote: > Possibly not the quickest, but my favoured solution to this is to visit > snapshot.debian.net and find a version from just before I experienced > breakages - or if you have the space, not c

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:13:25PM +0200, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent > Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain > programs back to testing or stable - unti

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 07:19:10 +, Shaun ONeil wrote: > A cleaner method appears to be "apt pinning", but I have little to no > idea how this works - I'd suggest searching the archives. There is a fair explanation at the Apt HOWTO manual. -- Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra -

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system(fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 06:13, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Hi, > I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent > Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain > programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know > that it is possibl

best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know that it is possible so could anyone point me to a document about it or show me

Re: alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

2001-11-27 Thread Peter Hicks
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:56, nate wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew of good alternatives to > minicom that are available in testing or woody(or i suppose > 3rd party). looking for something with better ANSI support > and needs to support serial connections. don't need modem > support(th

Re: alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

2001-11-27 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, nate wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew of good alternatives to > minicom that are available in testing or woody(or i suppose > 3rd party). looking for something with better ANSI support > and needs to support serial connections. don't need modem > support(though with s

RE: alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

2001-11-27 Thread John Purser
m is the Aspect scripting language. Hope this helps, John Purser http://solarflow.dyndns.org/pcplus/ -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:56 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

alternatives to minicom in debian stable or testing?

2001-11-27 Thread nate
i was wondering if anyone knew of good alternatives to minicom that are available in testing or woody(or i suppose 3rd party). looking for something with better ANSI support and needs to support serial connections. don't need modem support(though with serial i suppose its standard). mainly for null