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Debian Sarge via Etch
Posted by simonw on Mon 20 Feb 2006 at 10:19
My installation of Debian Sarge via the Etch installer to bypass hardware problems, has a later version of some key components (e.g. apt) than Debian Sarge from a Sarge installer. Guess the folks in #debian with tell me it isn't Debian.
Hmm, wonder if I'm setting myself up for some bad problems?
Hmm, wonder if I'm setting myself up for some bad problems?
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Looking for problems? Maybe, I guess it depends on what you've got installed that's from Etch and not Sarge. If the worst comes to the worst, you could just edit your sources.list and (up|down)grade one way or the other.
Laters...
Laters...
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I used pinning, and downgraded as per the Debian reference. Key components at a different version included dpkg, and Perl. Perl is a show stopper, as 5.8.7 base doesn't have any libraries in stable to go with it.
Downgrading was interesting.
In our case upgrading isn't an option, the machine is a backup server for another machine, so I'm making it identical - except the hardware differences mean that the regular Sarge installer don't work.
Couldn't find a specific Debian Sarge installer that would, but the DELL for Debian CD would have allowed a Woody install and then upgrade, which would at least have been a supported route.
Sarge seems to work fine on a machine that Sarge can't be installed on - oh the joys of random hardware.
Downgrading was interesting.
In our case upgrading isn't an option, the machine is a backup server for another machine, so I'm making it identical - except the hardware differences mean that the regular Sarge installer don't work.
Couldn't find a specific Debian Sarge installer that would, but the DELL for Debian CD would have allowed a Woody install and then upgrade, which would at least have been a supported route.
Sarge seems to work fine on a machine that Sarge can't be installed on - oh the joys of random hardware.
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Use "apt-show-versions" to see the extent of your problem.
Though, using Etch now is doable, even for production, unless you absolutely need the security updates (production server, etc...).
Though, using Etch now is doable, even for production, unless you absolutely need the security updates (production server, etc...).
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Note to all and sundry -- Etch now has a security team, so using Etch would be plausible route if you need the benefits of the Etch installer due to hardware constraints.
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