From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:51:24 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community-en@altlinux.org Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Sisyphus.....Alt.....few questions Message-ID: <20030711135124.GH873@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: community-en@altlinux.org References: <3F0EAEE0.5090100@amnet.co.cr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F0EAEE0.5090100@amnet.co.cr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:51:27 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:34:40AM -0600, Chad wrote: > I would like to try some of the Sisyphus packages. I do NOT > want to mess up my current install of AltJr2.2. Wise. > Is it best to do a second intall of AltJr2.2 Yes; I also do that when testing some new release to upgrade to (or another distro). > do all the updates and they go to the repositories and select > the sisyphus repositories? Ugh. Explain yourself :-) updates/ are *stable* updates, Sisyphus/ is an unstable (developers') branch. Rare packages tested in Sisyphus would be backported/repackaged as updates if they fix security or critical bugs. > Then update everything sisyphus or can I just do certain > progams? Basically, you can do with several programs, but till some base component (like libqt3) changes enough to drag all its dependencies after itslef. The recommended way is dist-upgrade (total), still sometimes binary "refresh" goes OK, and in most situations it's possible to rebuild src.rpm from Sisyphus on a previous stable install with development. I've been practicing that at home but now am mostly using Sisyphus at work and Master+updates at home and on servers, though home system sometimes gets newer things like kernel/alsa which I want to test on yet another hardware sample. All in all, using Sisyphus is recommended with broadband at hand, and the packages downloaded could be backed up from /var/cache/apt/packages just in case you want to bring them somewhere else or redo something from scratch. -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/