On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:14:16AM +1000, Mary wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Steve Lindsay wrote: > > A question for debian-ites. Is there much value in tracking debian > > testing? > > > > I was thinking that it might be a nice way to stay relatively up to > > date with new software (compared to stable), not _too_ risky in terms > > of stability (compared to unstable), and not too hard on the dialup > > connection (compared to unstable). > > I started running unstable after testing froze for woody. But I quite > liked tracking testing, unstable has been known to break things like > ssh, lilo and apache (well, it is "unstable") which was annoying even on > my absolutely non-critical desktop. > > > Based on such impeccable reasoning I updated my sources.list to point > > at testing and the updates were 178mb! (on my connection this is a > > loooong download) I understand that it has been a while since woody > > was released so there will have been plenty of updates to catch up > > with but are changes to testing usually added at such a rate that I'm > > going to be up for big updates like this on a regular basis? My modem > > is still sore. > > Packages go into testing once they've been in unstable for a little > while (a week or so?) and no critical bugs have been reported. So it > depends how often you update. The packages will change a little less > often than unstable, but will change fairly frequently. Update once a > month, and it will be well over 100MB each time. Update more often, and > it will only be 5-10MB as Erik said.
the frequency depends on the urgency of the update, but generally speaking, it is around a week, 10 days. I personally runs testing on most of my boxes, without any problems. Once in a while some issues happens (recently, the merge of some core packages into coreutils made the upgrade non smooth, but it is not really a common thing). Some people are working on diffs download (rsync) trough apt instead of the full packages, which should help a lot when connected trough low speed lines. JeF > > -Mary > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- -> Jean-Francois Dive --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such thing as randomness. Only order of infinite complexity. - _The Holographic Universe_, Michael Talbot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
