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freistil

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Registered: 2014-12-16

Posts: 66

Repositories and Distro-versions

This is not a real issue, so I post it here.

So Jessie is on the way and Janice repositories exist, but are not populated at the moment.
From a Debian - perspective first: What would happen if I install Debian Squeeze for example, change the repository list to Debian Wheezy and do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? Would I effectively have Debian Wheezy or just a big bork?

The reason for that question is, since I constantly try to explore Jessie and Sid in combination with #! (and yes, I constantly f*ck up stuff and repair it (I get better though, this is the way to learn!) ), I went over to comment the CB - repos out. If I just remove them and replace them with the Janice - repos, which will be built on Jessie and I somehow create a semi-stable Jessie-system (which I will of course try to port to Jessie stable if possible) here, would Waldorf itself not just being automatically updated to Janice then?

hhh

Cityspeak

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 3,253

Re: Repositories and Distro-versions

Regarding the first part of your question, if it dist-upgrades successfully, you'd have wheezy. But just changing sources and dist-upgrading is not what Debian recommends, and you'll likely get a big bork.

But the question is irrelevant since you're trying to run a #!/jessie system and #! is currently tracking wheezy, not squeeze. Forum members damo and olegabrielz just were helping someone in another thread and described how they dist-upgrade #! to follow jessie or sid...
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38873

I'd add that you should follow Debian's recommendations for dist-upgrading, which is to apt-get upgrade first, to remove uneccessary packages, to dist-upgrade while not in X, etc... For those recommendations, see these release notes...

i386
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ … ng.en.html

amd64
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ … ng.en.html

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freistil

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Registered: 2014-12-16

Posts: 66

Re: Repositories and Distro-versions

Thanks!
Yes, I managed to get to sid successfully without any problems.
I was just curious, how apt-get or aptitude would actually react if you start from one stable version and try to dist-upgrade to the other.
A little bit like the question, if you have a car and you replace every single item on it, will you still have the same car or is it another one 

hhh

Cityspeak

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 3,253

Re: Repositories and Distro-versions

Cars are still mostly hardware, operating systems are software, therefore apples != oranges. 

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KrunchTime

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Registered: 2012-03-02

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Re: Repositories and Distro-versions

@freistil:  It's better to use apt-get if you're using Sid/Unstable; http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 85#p416185

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freistil

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Registered: 2014-12-16

Posts: 66

Re: Repositories and Distro-versions

I read that a couple of times in some Debian forums already. But all the problems I had actually came from not being careful enough with major dependency problems that apt-get created.

Maybe because 'sid' is now majorly Jessie and this is freezed already, so 'almost stable'? So I was maybe just lucky by picking the right time to start using aptitude. It seriously shipped me around many major problems in this case.