On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:42:58PM +0100, Georges A. Tomazi wrote: > I was wondering if someone can help me with informations about the > reliability of a newly released Debian version. One choice is to install > the upcoming 2.1r5 or to wait for the 2.2r1, knowing that I will have very > little testing time in that case. What would you suggest ?
You'd probably be best off installing 2.1r5 and working with its packages whenever possible. If you find that you need a newer version of a package that's installed in 2.2, you'd want to look into using apt-get to download and build new debs from potato source archives. For example, after setup, you would be able to do 'apt-get -b source zope' to get the zope sources from potato, unpack them, and build a deb from them compiled against your currently installed libraries. You probably *don't* want to just go installing the actual precompiled deb files from the 2.2 distribution, as these would either require substantial c library upgrades, install forcing, or other such ugliness. -- Mike Renfro / Instructor, Basic Engineering Program 931 372-3601 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
