Re: switching flavors

[Frank M <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 06/04/2017 02:20 AM, Davor Balder wrote:
> Yes - and based on some work I did earlier in the week if you keep the
> things simple I would say your upgrade should be uneventful.
>
> I  changed the repo to unstable
>
> Then I did:
>
> apt-get update
>
> apt-get upgrade
>
> That was it.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> D
>
> On 04/06/17 13:11, Gary Dale wrote:
> > On 03/06/17 08:59 PM, Frank M wrote:
> > > I am running Debian Stretch, and like to change to Sid.
> > >
> > > Can I just change my sources.list to unstable and upgrade?
> > >
> > > I have run Sid before and am prepared to deal with some breakage
> > Yes, although I'd do a dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade if using aptitude).
> >
> > Based on some earlier problems with Stretch and the discussions around
> > it, I'm not sure that sid is necessarily less stable. Apparently they
> > dump stuff into Stretch without anyone actually checking to see that
> > it can work with other Stretch libraries.

    Great. Thanks very much. We'll see how it goes.