[plug] Another user converted to Debian :)

[Adrian Woodley]

I'm pretty sure they aren't. They'll only be upgraded as they move into Sid.
However, regular apt-get -t experimental install gnome2 will keep you current.
Now is a good time to get into gnome2 - theres very little broken and you can
try some of the new versions of the big packages such as gnumeric and
galeon-snapshot.

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Computer & IT
www.Diskworld.com.au

Australian Linux Conference, Perth 2003
http://conf.linux.org.au


Quoting Jeff Williams <jw at globaldial.com>:

> Adrian Woodley wrote:
> 
> >Yeah, it does. But the easiest way around that if you still want to run
> >Woody/Sarge is to put an entry in your apt.conf file along the lines of
> >'APT::Default-Release "stable"'. Make sure that your sources.list refers to
> >'stable' instead of 'woody'. Then add another entry refering to 'unstable'.
> It
> >will then only pull files from Sid if you need them. An apt-get -t
> experimental
> >install gnome2 should set you up with the latest gnome 2 stuff without
> needing
> >to run your whole system on Sid (not that thats a problem - all my machines
> run
> >on sid).
> >  
> >
> Yeah, I run sid too, but I was just checking because the original post 
> was about woody.
> 
> But another question, once you've done the
> 
> apt-get -t experimental install gnome2
> 
> will those packages then be updated from experimental if you just to 
> apt-get upgrade?
> 
> Jeff
> 
>