On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:23:44PM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> I went to add some packages (abcde, for one) to my laptop, which runs
>> Ubuntu 6.something (how do I check?), only to find out that
>> us.archive.ubuntu.com no longer carries that distro. This is highly
>> un-good, as I hate reinstalling, and try to do it as seldom as possible.
>> I'm not married to Ubuntu or a Debian-derived distro. What distro has a
>> halfway decent package system, and is likely to be around a LONG time?
>> Alternatively, is there another repository I could use?
>
> Debian stable has inordinate longivity. apt-get dist-upgrade
> doesn't require reinstalling, just a reboot to use a new kernel.
Can dist-upgrade _only_ take me to Debian (which version?), or can it do
other things as well? How does it decide?
I use a custom-compiled kernel. I guess backing it up, then letting apt-get
do its thing, then restoring it, should do the trick.
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