-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The > testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for > developers, not users. It's "the stuff they're working on for the next > release of stable," not necessarily "the stuff that's more stable than > unstable but newer than stable." This is a subtle but important > difference. For example, security updates will make it into testing > *after* they make it into both unstable and stable.
I do development on the machine running Sarge. The package list in the stable list gets a bit dated for me. They, however, are perfect for the machine that *HAS* to be up and stable. I don't want that machine anywhere near the cutting edge. > > What is the procedure for this type of an upgrade? IOW, what commands > > would be given to apt to move the machine to the next version? > > Make sure your system is up to date relative to your current distro, > then read: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgra >de Thanks much. I really do appreciate the info. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWilqjeziQOokQnARAoeYAJ9CgCFNTiny+6dy27PILrwm3znKmACdGmT0 y0kZkZZ3TV6eGA3EC99clbc= =qzo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----