Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Browning
You can have both repos but it won't do you much good as anything that has changed in Sid will get overwritten and anything that hasn't changed since Stable will be the same version in both places. You can install specific packages, then 'pin' them in apt so they won't be upgraded, but that

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Jim March
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: You can have both repos but it won't do you much good as anything that has changed in Sid will get overwritten and anything that hasn't changed since Stable will be the same version in both places. Sure, that's

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Jim wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: You can have both repos but it won't do you much good as anything that has changed in Sid will get overwritten and anything that hasn't changed since Stable will be the same version in both places. Sure,

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Jim March
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Dale Farnsworth d...@farnsworth.org wrote: I'd recommend that you use testing, unless you have a specific reason for using unstable (sid). With testing, there is less churn and less likelihood of packages needing manual fixups or not installing cleanly for a

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Jim wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Dale Farnsworth d...@farnsworth.org wrote: I'd recommend that you use testing, unless you have a specific reason for using unstable (sid). With testing, there is less churn and less likelihood of packages needing manual fixups or not installing

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Jim March
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Dale Farnsworth d...@farnsworth.org wrote: Network Manager 0.7: No, version 0.6.6 is in lenny and in sid. Version 0.7.0 is in experimental, so it's possible to install it manually, but don't expect it to work perfectly. -Dale Well THAT

Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-07 Thread Jim March
Is it...totally insane, or workable for somebody capable of at least basic troubleshooting, the ability to edit xorg.conf and the like and good google-fu? Note that I am *not* a coder - if necessary I can apply a patch to source and recompile... I keep running across Debian packages that didn't

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen
will it by default, i am not sure, however i know you can start opening other branches in the apt configuration. so they become available... i think if you look into something like aptitude it will even rate them. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Is

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-07 Thread Jim March
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: will it by default, i am not sure, however i know you can start opening other branches in the apt configuration. so they become available... i think if you look into something like aptitude it will even rate them. I know it

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen
Last time i ran debian it didn't seem to mind On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: will it by default, i am not sure, however i know you can start opening other branches in the apt

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen P Rufle
I have not verified, but I think that if you are adding a more stable repo to an unstable Debian box. Then no issues should arise since if it is in a more stable repo it has already been tested thoroughly in order to graduate to the more stable repo. Jim March wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:32