From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T09:21:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for Debian complete package for 1.8

On Friday 26 August 2005 08:16 pm, David Brady wrote:
> Danny Collins wrote:
> >switch your sources to pull from TESTNG and then
> >apt-get update
> >apt-get upgrade
> >apt-get install ruby rails
>
> Doesn't this mean that EVERY application you have on your system will be
> "upgraded" to *testing* versions?
>
> I may have used an unstable source, but the last time I did an apt-get
> upgrade with funky sources, it rendered my system unusable (unstable
> version of XFree86, for starters).
>
> I'm not a debian guru.  Perhaps testing is not the same thing as unstable?

Testing is somewhere between stable and unstable ... I've found it to be a 
fairly comfortable place to live.  

If you want to mix and match between testing, stable and unstable, this 
article may be helpful: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

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