On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:07 +0200, Attilla de Groot wrote: > It may have been 2 years since I worked with Debian on production > systems, but in my experience there are alot of unstable packages in > unstable. So it's a bad advice to run unstable on production systems.
the debian stable, testing, unstable, experimental branches mean different things on different systems. The arm series for example testing is generally really unstable and may not work, infact you may end up with package conflicts. However testing on x86 is generally pretty stable. This is admitted to by the package maintainers of the various platforms. On the x86 line stable is really stable, testing is fairly stable, unstable is questionable, depending on what exactly you have installed you may or may not experience package conflicts and experimental is most likely going to generate package conflicts. Also note that debian doesnt officially give out security updates for anything but stable. So if you dont use stable you wont get updates to any packages that arent in the stable tree from security.debian.org. This may or may not matter in your infrastructure (for example if the only network service is asterisk and you build from source you wouldnt get any updates anyway). With that said getting the source and building it is fairly painless on debian. Assuming that you have a sane build environment that is. tasksel may help you there if you arent quite sure what all is required. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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