On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 13:59, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> James Stuckey wrote: >> > You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with an >> > unstable system. >> >> What? Why would it be unstable? > > For one it would then be "Unstable", as in the daily Debian Unstable > build. As in Unstable, Testing, Stable. Here is a reference to > Debian release tracks.
Oh, just the names? I realized 3 or 4 years ago that there is no point in being afraid of unstable or experimental just because of the names. I guess they might be unstable enough to bother some people. > But the real problem with upgrading by the method described is that > you will probably end up with an unbootable system. That would be > another definition of unstable. This next upgrade will require > specific actions to successfully upgrade. Such as upgrading the > kernel first, rebooting, then upgrading the rest of the system. See > several of the recent discussion threads talking about the upgrade > process from Lenny to Squeeze to get the details. Yeah, I guess I forgot about that silly transition issue. Probably because I tend to just upgrade with aptitude interactive, and even I do manage to get an unbootable system, it is easy enough to recover it with a live cd. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin9=v9dmrbunfzihkrq6=aouhqw+ofhqhyxx...@mail.gmail.com