[plug] Sid

[Anthony Jones]

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Adrian,

I take a different approach. I use Woody and if there's something from Sid 
that I want I download it separately from the Debian site. I keep up with all 
the Woody updates which seems to be about 50-100 mb per week or so. This 
seems to work for me. I'm relatively conservative though because I really 
hate it when my computer isn't working. I get a few broken installs even on 
Woody.

Anthony

On Monday 10 December 2001 23:21, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> > G'Day,
> >          Whats everyone's opinion on Debian Sid? Is it worth taking the
> > plunge and using it on my desktop?
>
> That depends on how well you know the Debian package system.
> Things are still likely to be broken, but I have yet to come across a
> problem I couldn't fix with judicious use of dpkg, and the occasional
> edit of /var/lib/dpkg/info/<packagename>.postinst
>
> > My biggest concern is my slow
> > connection and the refresh rate of the packages - ie lots to download
> > and not much to do it with.
>
> I run sid at home, and my connection to the 'net is a 33.6k modem... I
> don't keep it up-to-date on a daily basis though, I only tend to install
> packages when I want the latest version of something, or a bug has been
> reported on debian-security-announce. Then I just apt-get install that
> package, and let apt install whatever else it needs. If a whole bunch of
> libs have been upgraded in the meantime and the download is going to be
> tens of megabytes, I let it d/l overnight.
>
> The -d flag tells apt to download only, not install, so if you are
> uncertain about the stability of what you are about to install, you can
> let it download overnight, and then babysit the install the next day.
>
>  - Matt
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