[Gllug] it's been a long time coming

Sean Burlington sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Wed Jun 8 22:18:42 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 10:47 am, John Winters wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:42 +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> > I've got a mail server that was set to run on testing as stable didn't
> > have the software I wanted - but now I want to switch to stable.
> >
> > Do I just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change testing to stable?
>
[snip]
>
> > Anything else I need to do?
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>

thanks :-)

what does the dist-upgrade do?

as I understand it (probably incorrectly) I'm not upgrading anything here - 
I'm just stopping the gradual upgrade of testing at release point 

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Sean
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