Re: Apt Question

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Apt Question
Date	2017-05-23 14:00 +0200
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 04:57:03AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> Michael Milliman wrote:
> > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie),
> > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and
> > have it running for some time.

> I don't know, I am not being sarcastic, is this really good practice?

I wouldn't advise it.  The stretch + jessie part is fine, as long as
he realizes he is running stretch, which seems to be the case.  Adding
sid binaries is not wise.  If he needs a package from post-stretch,
he should backport the sid *source* package to his stretch system.

> If he
> is already running a sid linux kernel and some other core packages by
> switching to jessie he will be stuck with those packages almost indefinitely,

He's not running jessie, nor could he "switch to jessie" if he wanted
to.  Once you've installed a single binary package from post-jessie,
there is no going back.

Likewise, once you have installed a single binary package from
post-stretch (e.g. sid), there is no going back.

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Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 23:10 +0200
  Re: Apt Question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-05-23 01:10 +0200
    Re: Apt Question Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-23 11:00 +0200
      Re: Apt Question Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-23 14:00 +0200
        Re: Apt Question Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-23 15:30 +0200
          Re: Apt Question <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-23 15:50 +0200
            Re: Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 16:30 +0200
      Re: Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 16:30 +0200

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