Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc.

22: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc. (response to 21)

Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 04/21/04 07:50 AM

I think that woody means three-year old versions of packages, and it rarely breaks. sid means one-month old versions of packages, and it often breaks. (in my experience).

Your timing is very good - check out the other post where Galileo University has released a debian package for .LRN:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=177317

25: Re: Debian stable or testing? apt-get or yum? etc. (response to 22)

Posted by Roberto Mello on 04/22/04 06:37 PM

Woody NEVER breaks. I've never, ever, seen a Debian stable system break for anything related to the distribution.

I run Debian unstable on three different machines (one of them is a server) and only had one breakage in a desktop machine in the last year. The breakage was with GNOME, and was easy to solve.

In the one server I moved to unstable, we were running Woody + backports, but it became too painful. For a while we had a chroot with unstable, just so we could have some sid packages. So we (the group handling the machine) just bit the bullet and went to "careful unstable", meaning we watch the mailing lists and are careful before doing an upgrade.

-Roberto