> > If you're > really paranoid, I suppose you have three servers: Live, Copy-of-Live > and Development. :)
I wouldn't call that paranoid at all, I'd call that good practice... Use 'stable' (Copy-of-Live) to check your application will run ok with the packages/versions available on squeeze. Sometimes it'll mean falling back to backports, creating your own backport, or adjusting your application. I've found such problems on several occasions - developing on testing and finding a dependency wasn't available in squeeze, was too old to support feature X, or a library's API had changed. Use 'testing' (Development) to check there're no surprises when testing becomes the new stable. One memorable one that came up in the lenny->squeeze transition was the removal of the MySQL Cluster engine from MySQL Server between 5.0 and 5.1 (the projects forked). -Steve On 9 January 2013 13:48, Darac Marjal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:25:47AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:58:01AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: >> > This is the whole point of the testing distribution, AFAIUI. You run >> > 'stable' on your production server and 'testing' on your development >> > server. >> >> Really? >> >> Wouldn't you want your development server/environment to be setup as >> close as possible to your production server? > > For most of the lifespan, yes. But at some point you need to start > looking at the new version of the OS and start working out how you're > going to upgrade the production server with minimal fuss. If you're > really paranoid, I suppose you have three servers: Live, Copy-of-Live > and Development. :) > >> >> BTW, I believe development, and upgrading from one stable distribution >> to the next one as two different concepts. >> >> -- >> "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people >> who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the >> oppressing." --- Malcolm X >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130109112547.GA28651@tal >>
