-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Travis Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:35, Paul Johnson wrote: >> "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I'm not sure that "less stable" is the right term, but "less usable" >> > almost certainly is. >> >> backports.org is your friend. > > Here's a question for the more experienced folks: is "downgrading" from > unstable to stable as easy as upgrading is? Not particularly. I've never downgraded libc successfully on a machine across major version changes without having to reinstall. Your best bet if you don't want to reinstall is watch closely after sarge goes stable for a new unstable fork off to testing, and move when they fork. > For the most part, it's worked okay, except for a couple of times when I'd > upgrade things and something important would stop working... but I'm not > sure any more that I'm really that comfortable on the "bleeding edge". I > *can* fix things -- I'm a Unix sysadmin in my day job -- but honestly, > after spending all day fixing *other* people's computer problems, I want a > system that just works at home. Stable with backports.org updates of key items would probably be to your liking, then. > Alternatively, how soon is Sarge going to become stable? Sometime before Dec 31, 2003 if people get moving on it was the last I heard. I know the right answer is someplace on the website, if you find it, post it. > I suppose another way to do it would be to switch my sources.list to > point to Sarge and see if that would work -- I'd think that that > would be an easier "downgrade". Then when Sarge becomes stable, I > could switch my sources.list to point to stable, and start using > backports.org for things I decide I want a more recent version of... That's another viable solution, but it'll take more work than your "back up /home and reinstall woody" plan, I imagine. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWnHmUzgNqloQMwcRAtbkAJ9bGmJzcqGsCjceQ+sFTTSIZQvchACgnA5z vZRRUvrp6dri0w8Wfib2O3I= =A150 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
