[Nottingham] testing to stable on release day

[James Green]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:12:28PM +0100, Haber, Michael wrote:
> I've got a number (60ish) of debian stable boxes at work, and i'd like
> get them upgraded to the new release now for various reasons. What
> would happen if I do a dist-upgrade to testing now, and change my
> sources to stable again on the day the new version of stable is
> released? Then apt-get update any changes. 

I think what you really really want to do is set all your sources lines
to say "sarge" -- this will achieve what you described without any
fretting on the release day :)

Cheers,
James.
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