Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 June 2017 10:11:40 Michael Milliman wrote: > On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:52 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user > for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings > blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. I really enjoy troubleshooting problems, and am not

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 08:54 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: >> Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. >> Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified >> from pointing to Testing in

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 08:40:38AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > Thank you Siard and Greg. This does clear up this part of the process. > Currently, I have my sources.list pointed at Stretch, recently modified > from pointing to Testing in anticipation of potential issues. I think > I'll go

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Fungi4All
A sneaky way to have fun and be safe, not a very responsible user for testing and experimenting, but if you are so afraid of tgings blowing up and not knowing how to fix them here is a trick. Let's say once a day, at the time you turn on your pc, you usually do updates and upgrades. What if you

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Michael Milliman
On 06/02/2017 07:03 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: >> Michael Milliman: >>> As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. >>> At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this >>> correct? >> >> No, that

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Siard wrote: > Michael Milliman: > > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > > correct? > > No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. >

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Siard
Michael Milliman: > As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. > At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this > correct? No, that is not correct. :-) Testing will be unaffected. Depending on how you configure /etc/apt/sources.list, you can either

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/01/2017 05:38 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: Hi folks, I'm currently running Stretch, and have been for a couple of months. As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this correct? If so, how

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-01 Thread deloptes
Michael Milliman wrote: > Hi folks,  I'm currently running Stretch, and have been for a couple of > months.  As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of > weeks.  At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing.  Is > this correct? If so, how disastrous might it be

Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-01 Thread Michael Milliman
Hi folks, I'm currently running Stretch, and have been for a couple of months. As I understand it, Stretch will become stable in a couple of weeks. At that time what is now Sid (unstable) will become Testing. Is this correct? If so, how disastrous might it be for me to upgrade from Stretch to