[plug] Debian Testing to Debian Stable?

[Onno Benschop]

Hi all,

Over the past few years I've been tracking Testing and had more or less 
success and the odd disaster.

I'm beginning to dislike disasters and I think I would like to change my 
machine back to Stable.

Before you all jump up and down, fortunately for me, my satellite modem 
got wet before the latest release, so up to that time I'd been tracking 
Testing. In the mean time a new Stable was released.

In order not to break my machine, how would I best proceed? (I'm 
thinking at the moment something like: "How do to porcupines make love? 
Very carefully!")

After the obvious change my sources.list from testing to stable, and do 
a dselect update, I have a number of options:

    * apt-get dist-upgrade
    * apt-get -d dist-upgrade, followed by careful installs of one
      application at a time

Some might point out other ways to achieve this.

I should point out that my main concern is that Testing seems to move 
along at a fair crack, which incurs a whole lot of downloads regularly 
and I'm always concerned that my workstation is out of action if 
something breaks. To be honest, only a hand-full of breaks have actually 
happened.

Perhaps I just need a good slap in the face... (and continue to track 
Testing :-)


Cheers,

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Onno Benschop

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