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Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster

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On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 12:05:30PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 7/7/19 9:42 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> >On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 08:44:52 -0500
> >Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> wrote:
> >
> >Hello Mark,
> 
> >>I am not exactly sure why you are concerned about "mixed repos".
> >
> >Personally, I'm not.  However, the nature of your questions indicated to
> >me that you aren't entirely at home fiddling with this stuff.  I stress;
> >to me.  It also seems I may have come to the wrong conclusion about your
> >capabilities in this area.  My apologies.
> 
> No problem. I am experienced, but I don't subscribe to all the
> mailing lists.  I'm no guru.
> 
> >
> >Having a mixture of stable and testing under certain circumstances can
> >be a recipe for disaster.  Check the list archives; there are quite a
> >few examples of people getting into a mess when mixing repos in this way.
> >
> 
> Generally updates to discrete packages and sets of packages are
> okay.  I am careful about system packages.  E.g., I would update VLC
> or LibreOffice, but not systemd.

Take into account that one of those might want to pull in a new libc (the
installer will make a lot of noise then :-)

That's where the real fun starts...

Cheers
-- t

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Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 13:10 +0200
  Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-07 13:20 +0200
    Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-07-07 14:30 +0200
      Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-07 14:40 +0200
  Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 13:20 +0200
  Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Dekks Herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> - 2019-07-07 13:20 +0200
    Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2019-07-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2019-07-07 13:50 +0200
        Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-07-07 14:00 +0200
    Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-07 14:10 +0200
        Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 15:10 +0200
          Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-07 15:30 +0200
            Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 15:50 +0200
              Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-07 16:50 +0200
                Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-07 19:10 +0200
                Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-07-07 19:10 +0200
    Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2019-07-07 14:10 +0200
      Apt vs Apt-get (Was: Can't Upgrade to Buster} Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2019-07-07 14:50 +0200
  Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-07 14:10 +0200

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