Debian upgrade styles [was Re: [clue-tech] Ubuntu experiences good and bad]

[Collins Richey]

On 11/1/05, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:


> I did have one "small" problem when I went too soon into the next
> testing distrobution, and I didn't like some of the changes.  I tried to
> roll back to the stable distrobution, but too much had been upgraded
> (hint:  libc) ...

FYI,

I'm not aware of any distro that has stable vs. testing releases where
you can safely rollback. from testing to stable. Gentoo certainly
isn't safe in this respect, so I'm not surprised that Debian has the
same limitations.


--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan
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