Hi, so I have a RPi3 with Raspbian jessie installed. How risky is it to "upgrade" to testing?
Thanks Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
Raspbian Testing
Jul 19, 2016
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No risk at all. You do have an image of your current machine state to revert back to?
Graham.
%Profound_observation%
not yet ;)
Thanks Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
It is very easy to copy your SD card to a file on a disk of another machine, and when things go wrong you can copy the file back to the SD card.
eys, no problem for that. The question was if the "testing" version of raspbian can be used normally or it's a blood bath every time you try to do an apg-get update && upgrade.
Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
No, 'testing' is pretty much what everybody else calls 'stable'
'Unstable' is to be avoided though.
Truth welcomes investigation because truth knows investigation will lead
to converts. It is deception that uses all the other techniques.
Not quite, 'unstable' is what Microsoft calls 'stable' :)
W J G
What about "'Unstable' is to be avoided. though." did you not get?
;-)
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Well actually, I've never been unstable, although I've had testing times :
W J G
The SD card are so cheap that's probably easier to install on a new SD! So you original installation is safe!
I've run 'testing' on several other machines with no problems. 'testing' will become the next 'stable' when it is 100% ready.
yes, I know. I'm running debian testing on a linuxbox. It went through 3 or 4 different testing versions ;). The only glitch I had has been when they moved from sysV to systemd.
Thanks Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
LOL,
(sudo apt full-upgrade)
882 upgraded, 301 newly installed, 47 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 740 MB of archives. After this operation, 985 MB of additional disk space will be used.long upgrade :)
Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
ok, done...and reverted back to jessie.
Update itself went well, but DE configuration was reset and there was something odd with font dimension. Couldn't find a solution in a short time (and didn't have the time nor will to dig into conf files) so I reverted back to jessie.
Bye Jack
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
how about just using a different SD card ?
your story is so touching, but it sounds just like a lie
"Straighten up and fly right"
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