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to: NICHOLAS BOEL
from: DARRYL PERRY
date: 2015-02-18 17:15:00
subject: Re: Debian wheezy uptime

On 02/18/15, Nicholas Boel said the following...
 
 NB> Hello Darryl,
 NB> 
 NB> On 17 Feb 15 11:17, Darryl Perry wrote to Nicholas Boel:
 NB> 
 NB>  NB>> If you like Debian and all it's worth, but want the latest and
 NB>  NB>> greatest that's tested and stabilized.. try Archlinux. LOVE IT.
 NB> 
 NB>  DP> I'm not certain that it's debian's fault. I may have reported a few
 NB>  DP> months ago that I "accidentally" installed debian jesse, because I pu
 NB>  DP> unstable depots in my sources.list and did a 'apt-get upgrade'.  It
 NB>  DP> appeared that jesse was installed for like a day.  It appeared to wor
 NB>  DP> just fine, but now my system still shows wheezy.  I think my whole
 NB>  DP> system is borked and I'm looking to flush it and reinstall.
 NB> 
 NB> I would think that should be as easy as going back to the wheezy repos in
 NB> sources.list and doing another 'apt-get upgrade'. Should downgrade all
 NB> packages and put you back with the stable branch (in a perfect world,
 NB> anyways).

You'd think that would be the case, but it's not.  I've done that several
times already, with no joy.

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