Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: Matthijs wrote: When, and for what reasons, will Etch become frozen? See above for when but it's the project leader that ultimately determines when etch is good enough to be released. Uhm, no, it's the release managers'

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: Matthijs wrote: How long will Etch be in testing? When are the next summer olympics? ;-) But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Angelina Carlton
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Also, no new installer this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have been the biggest bottleneck. How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. -- Angelina Carlton

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 23:25, Angelina Carlton wrote: How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. Not sure myself, but I'm guessing the installer held things back for a long time, and while that was happening, people decided to

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Angelina Carlton wrote: How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks before sarge was released. Just curious. The only problem I had with the network installer is that it was not able to find the sites to download the necessary files from. Then

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:25:48PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Also, no new installer this time, which eliminates what I perceive to have been the biggest bottleneck. How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Steve Block, On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an unstable machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If someone

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Matthijs
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:40:11 +0200, Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an unstable machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Colin
Matthijs wrote: How long will Etch be in testing? When are the next summer olympics? ;-) But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Colin wrote: But seriously, the next release shouldn't take nearly as long as sarge because the number of supported architectures are being reduced from eleven to four. They are aiming for a 12 to 18 month release cycle. Also, no new installer this

Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Cates
becomes stable (like tomorrow), and I execute apt-get update, am I going to be ugrading all of my applications to the Sarge level? Do I need to do something to keep my Woody install at a Woody level and still use apt-get update/upgrade? Once Sarge becomes stable, what happens to the Woody I have

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: Hi all, not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm wanting to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation (ie, source.list file) to keep using apt-get update/upgrade.(?) Just put in

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Wulfy
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: Hi all, not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm wanting to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation (ie, source.list file) to keep using apt-get

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread EErdem
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:09 +0100, Wulfy wrote: Wouldn't that cause an upgrade to Sarge? Change your sources.list file: For your woody installed machine use woody not stable, and for your sarge installed machine use sarge not testing... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: Hi all, not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm wanting to know what I need to do to my current Woody installation

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Roberto C. Sanchez told: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:58:52AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 the mental interface of Robert Cates told: Hi all, not being with Debian long enough to have gone through this before, I'm

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. For example, woody, sarge, sid, etc. It is much more apparent, that way, what the

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Grant
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:22:38 -0400 Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I'll have to disagree on this. I think it is always better to specifically name the ditribution you want to track in sources.list. For

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: For me, also being rather new to Debian, this raises another question. Currently, I am running an unstable machine (I have unstable in sources.list). I will probably keep that. I'm just curious: If someone has sid in sources.list,