Upgraded to Lenny. What next?

[svzard]

Hi all,
I upgraded to Lenny this morning. I took the backup of the sources.list (now probably this will not help!) and removed all entries related to etch. Put

deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib

Then did

apt-get update

followed by

apt-get dist-upgrade

The new Debian looks so great and as current as most other distros.

I want to know what else I need to do now. Is there anything I need to add to the sources list, esp. security related? How do I enable automatic notification. I have put the notification applet in the toolbar but it does not show anything related to updates while there were updates.

Regards,
SV

[coopstah13]

if you take your old file that was setup for getting security updates and whatnot and change all occurrences of etch to lenny, then do another update, you should pick up security updates for lenny

[svzard]

...change all occurrences of etch to lenny, then do another update, you should pick up security updates for lenny

Well, actually I didnot change 'all occurances of etch to lenny' coz it had entries for the binary cds and I do not have lenny cds. Infact, new sources.list now has only one entry stated above. I may get the latest security update by doing another update. But is there any link to updated in the file, like 'http://security.debian.org/...' the exact url I mean.

And what should be done for getting automatic update notifications?

[kai12]

Hi svzard.

I'm running etch and only use a few packages from lenny, but here are
the lines in my sources.list addressing lenny:

# Standard Repositories for lenny
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

# Update Repositories for lenny
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib

You can say "lenny" instead of "testing" (to stick with lenny even when
it becomes stable).

cheers, kai

[svzard]

Thanks Kai,
I added the repos to my sources.list. I then updated it too. But my problem is I still am not getting any update notifications like we get in Ubuntu/Fedora or any other distros. I've put the notification applet in the toolbar. But till now I've not received any notifications. Have not there been any updates till now???

[kai12]

Have not there been any updates till now???

Hard to tell for me (since I'm running etch, not lenny) - you just upgraded
to lenny from the repositories, I guess that'd give you an up-to-date lenny
system.

I'm not sure about security updates for the testing release, afaik they
have a different policy compared to the stable release; you can read up
on this here.

For etch, security updates for the weak key problem in ssh have just
been released yesterday.

cheers, kai

[markharding557]

lenny is updated almost daily so you will get updates very soon.
you will find unlike ubuntu they can be much bigger and never stop untill lenny gets frozen this is why it's called a rolling distro

[svzard]

Thanks a ton Kai for the link. Its really very informative.
Ya I agree, there is lot of updates and its too often considering its a testing branch.
Each time I do a 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' I've something to install.
But don't know why its not being informed in the notification space in the X.

[kai12]

I'm glad I could help!

I have "update-notifier" installed to automatically alert me of updates.
Is that the same notification app that you added to your taskbar?

cheers, kai

[svzard]

I'm not sure. When I click on the 'About' its says 'Notification Area 2.20.3'. This is what I've in Ubuntu and CentOS.