* [Comm-en] Sisyphus.....Alt.....few questions
@ 2003-07-11 12:34 Chad
2003-07-11 13:51 ` Michael Shigorin
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From: Chad @ 2003-07-11 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: community-en
I would like to try some of the Sisyphus packages. I do NOT want to mess
up my current install of AltJr2.2. Is it best to do a second intall of
AltJr2.2 do all the updates and they go to the repositories and select
the sisyphus repositories? Then update everything sisyphus or can I just
do certain progams?
Chad
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* Re: [Comm-en] Sisyphus.....Alt.....few questions
2003-07-11 12:34 [Comm-en] Sisyphus.....Alt.....few questions Chad
@ 2003-07-11 13:51 ` Michael Shigorin
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From: Michael Shigorin @ 2003-07-11 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: community-en
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 <mike@altlinux.ru>
------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/
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