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golinux

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## Updating betas etc

Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:46 am

I am several betas behind. So I have two questions.
1. I actually think this one has been answered before. Is it possible to update the betas without an install from scratch?
2. Once wheezy goes stable does fstab point to the wheezy repos and will that update everything and keep stable, well, stable?
fsmithred

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## Re: Updating betas etc

Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:21 am

1. Nope. If you've been following along in the forum, you can make the changes manually. There haven't been many in the last few betas. The snapshot tool and installer can be updated whenever there are newer debs. Just 'dpkg -i whatever.deb'.
2. I think you mean sources.list, and it points to "wheezy" instead of "testing". The day wheezy goes stable, you might have a few updates or maybe none if you've been doing it regularly. Refracta has been and will be based on Debian Stable. The wheezy version is the result of my getting an early start. Can't say how early I'll start with Jessie.
fsmithred

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## Re: Updating betas etc

Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:30 am

If you want to update your iso without downloading the whole thing, you can use zsync.
Change to the directory that contains the old iso and issue the command:

Code:
  `zsync -i your-copy-of-old.iso http://wherever.org/new.iso.zsync`

Right now, that would be:

Code:
  `zsync -i refracta-wheezy-<old-version>.iso http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/testing/refracta-wheezy-beta9-20130129_1700.iso.zsync`

golinux

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## Re: Updating betas etc

Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:13 am

> fsmithred wrote:1. Nope. If you've been following along in the forum, you can make the changes manually. There haven't been many in the last few betas. The snapshot tool and installer can be updated whenever there are newer debs. Just 'dpkg -i whatever.deb'.

Then I'm gonna wait for stable. Not in a messing-around mood.

> fsmithred wrote:2. I think you mean sources.list, and it points to "wheezy" instead of "testing". The day wheezy goes stable, you might have a few updates or maybe none if you've been doing it regularly. Refracta has been and will be based on Debian Stable. The wheezy version is the result of my getting an early start. Can't say how early I'll start with Jessie.

Duh. Of course. Sorry about the 'senior' moment.
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