[Glastonbury] Downgrading with apt-get

[Martin WHEELER]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, tim hall wrote:

> As I've only been using debian for less than a year, the process of tinkering
> with an unstable system with rather low resources to get it to do my bidding
> is a bit of a learning curve away still. But we'll get there!

Hey, no probs, dude!

Andy runs *everything* under unstable, 24/7  :)

(He also thinks absolutely nothing of doing 6 re-installs in one evening
-- this is FACT, not fiction.)

But you're quite right -- running unstable on a P133 with few resources
really is like trying to do it standing up in a hammock.

Me, I run testing on everything (all except one machine which runs
stable) -- and have no probs -- maybe one every three months; always
fixed within 48 hours.

Production systems are best run under stable; anything else should run
either testing or unstable.

If you've got the resources, run a second machine, and keep it upgraded
by about two weeks ahead of your principal machine.  That way you get
a system that's about one month/six weeks behind bleeding edge; and if
anything's going to break, you get two weeks' notice.  (My laptop serves
this purpose for me -- and as I've got Debian installed on it twice, I
don't care if one of them breaks.)

Have you thought of joining the debian-uk mailing list?  (Low traffic,
low noise, instant access to mountains of expertise, mainly from
developers themselves -- Debian UK <debian-uk at chiark.greenend.org.uk>)

HTH
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