[PLUG] On Going Unstable

[Robert Kopp]

--- Paul Mullen <pem at nellump.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:24:48PM -0800, Robert
> Kopp wrote:
> > I added unstable sources to sources.list for my
> Sarge
> > installation and did a dist-upgrade. Nothing
> dramatic
> > happened, although KDE 3.3 is noticeably different
> > from 3.2 when it starts. All services are okay.
> 
> Did you do an "apt-get update" before
> "dist-upgrade"? If not, then you
> wouldn't have received many (if any) packages from
> unstable.
> 
The response to this might be of general interest.
Yes, I did. I noted that only perhaps a third of the
newly-installed packages were from "unstable," the
rest from testing. (So it's not purely unstable. And
it doesn't say "Welcome to Sid.")

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Robert "Tim" Kopp
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