I feel like I've reached a stage where I can strat from scratch and be back up and running with the more or less same level of tuning within a couple of hours so I'm gonna give unstable a try.
I'm always looking for all the latest versions anyway so I might just take the plunge!
I'm gonna describe the steps I will take, please tell me if I forget anything, otherwise just wish me good luck
- # apt-get update
- # apt-get dist-upgrade
- change default branch in /etc/apt/apt.conf
- remove /etc/apt/preferences (pinning is not necessary anymore because I won't use mixed repositories)
- replace the testing repositories by unstable repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list
- # apt-get update
- # apt-get dist-upgrade
After this I will be either weeping/cursing/sweating because my system is totally sc**wed or jumping up and down on my chair contemplating the beauty of KDE 3.3.1
One thing I'm not totally clear about is the necessity of a debian.security repository when using unstable.
I think it's not needed because there is no specific packaging of security fixes for unstable, it's left to the original package maintainer to provide a new version of his package minus the security issue, so it's probably pretty pointless to include the debian.security entry from the testing branch ....
