Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

listcomm_at_ml1.net
Date: 07/31/04

  • Next message: John: "Re: screen goes black" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:34:37 -0700

    > > What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

    Okay... I got told by someone on this list: (a) that it is system
    suicide,
    and (b) that the fact that it is system suicide is well-documented in
    many places with ample dire warnings in 384 languages including Martian.

    But I haven't been able to find any such warnings yet, and nobody
    answered my "Where does it say that?" question.

    One thing I *am* certain of, is that if you are running one release,
    the risk increases proportionally with the number of additional
    other-release packages that get sucked in with whatever you tried to
    load from the other release. However, even so, it only takes *one*
    infernal incompatibility to land you back at the command prompt with
    X11 whining like a bad alternator bearing, or worse yet trying to
    resurrect your system via CD-ROM...

    (Nonetheless, I'd still like to know where all the fabled and legendary
    DON'T DO THIS warnings are) (especially the one written in Martian) 

    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: John: "Re: screen goes black"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)
      ... (You can use another package manager to install the packages again if ... KDE shows the same behavior as before, ... a lot of WARNINGS about unknown mimetypes now. ... This will monitor your syslog for new messages until you press CTRL + C. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Re: Silence apt-get for real
      ... Andrey Andreev wrote: ... > And -y does not cover all warnings, as you would see if you RTFM ... all prompts, except held packages or removing essential packages, in ...
      (Debian-User)
    • D7: Different list of compiler warnings
      ... I've found in D7 that when compiling with or without runtime packages, ... packages and get 10 warnings (I document unfinihed code, ... A build-all without packages and I get 11 compiler ...
      (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
    • Re: syncing install repos with latest updates
      ... the tedious task of weeding out older packages, ... namely my newly build distro does not install. ... pkgorder does produce a number of warnings e.g.: ... I just would like to sync the RPM directories and ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: How to build my own linux system
      ... > I want to build my own linux system from the ground ... > the packages and so on. ... Barzoomian the Martian - http://barzoomian.blogspot.com ...
      (alt.os.linux)