[Wolves] *nix packaging; was RPM

[fizzy]

 --- Aquarius <aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org> wrote:  
> Both of those things are in the official archive.
> Someone also happens to package up more
bleeding-edge
> versions of them and store them in another aptable 
> archive somewhere else.

OK, so how do I check which version I'm using so I can
remove the spurious sources.list entry? This may help
with issues mailed about last night...

> The characters are just codenames for releases. 
> /etc/debian_version tells you which version you are
> running -- stable is woody is 3.0. sarge is the
> testing distribution, which doesn't have a number 
> because it hasn't been released. On the next major 
> release of Debian, sarge will become stable, and 
> testing will get a new name (as yet undecided). 
> Debian unstable is *always* called "sid". Changing
> between them means editing your
/etc/apt/sources.list > to point at a different
distribution and then doing 
> apt-get dist-upgrade. Note that downgrades going
from > testing to stable, say) are a bit iffy and
don't >always work.

Good stuff. Are there any issues I should know about
before moving to sid? Is it /really/ 'unstable' or
just new and unproven?

> Aq.
fizz

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