[Gllug] Ubuntu and me - suggestions requested (polite ones please)

[Caroline Ford]

But when new stable is released having stable in your sources.list
will break stuff (and it's not a sane way of doing an upgrade)

On 11/14/08, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> John Edwards wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:14:47AM +0000, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> If you want a stable distro, use the stable branch, that name never
>>> changes. If you want a newer, use Testing branch and if you want
>>> Bleeding Edge but may break use Unstable.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I thought the current wisdom is to use the codenames in
>> /etc/apt/sources.list and not use 'stable', to avoid problems
>> when you 'apt-get upgrade' one day and find that a new version
>> has been released.
>>
>> You might be aware of it (having read the Debian announce list),
>> but what if a junior member of your sysadmin team is not?
>>
> Yeah I am aware of that. However, I have monitoring on available
> updates. When a new version is released, I will see that there are
> hundreds of packages for upgrade, it's not something you can easily miss
> unless you're not managing your servers properly.
>
> Admittedly, I do put etch in my sources.lst though, but I'm not
> convinced whether etch or stable is better really...
>
> -h
>
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