Selective upgrading of packages

Posted Jul 16, 2012 17:26 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Selective upgrading of packages by drag
Parent article: Left by Rawhide

That's why Debian also has Backports repository with new packages built against the previous distribution. It's a really nice thing if you need just a few packages on top of the stable distribution.

And actually using the Unstable distribution in Debian is much less scary than running Rawhide.

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Selective upgrading of packages

Posted Jul 16, 2012 18:11 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

The downside is that if you are interested in the 'latest and greatest' then Debian Unstable can actually be behind the regular Fedora releases. Not always and not with everything, but it's quite common.

Selective upgrading of packages

Posted Jul 16, 2012 21:20 UTC (Mon) by awesomeman (guest, #85116) [Link] (1 responses)

This happens around freezes of testing, because it is preferred to be able to run updates to testing through unstable, which means that core packages can't be upgraded during that period, or this would greatly complicate releasing.

Selective upgrading of packages

Posted Jul 16, 2012 22:54 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Well when you have a Fedora release it will generally be out ahead of Debian unstable for a while. After a couple months it would catch up, but then eventually Fedora has another release.

I use Debian Unstable and Fedora on my desktops.To me they seem roughly equivalent in terms of 'rawness' and goals even though they take different approaches.

To find a equivelant for Rawhide you'd have to look at mixing Debian Unstable with Experimental.