* Frank eggsperde@gmx.net [20060721 11:09]:
Incoming from johannes swoboda:
Grml tries to mitigate Unstable's instability by testing upstream stuff from Sid before allowing it into Grml. This way, they hope for the best of both worlds: relative stability as well as bleeding edge software.
So which software repository is actually used?
You receive all Debian packages from the Debian-pool and all the (exclusive) add-on packages from the grml-repository. (Remember: we are therefore of course full binary compatible with Debian.)
I have a stock debian and added the GRML repo, to have a look what?s in there. I found 29 packages and wondering now, which part of debian you are using.
mika@vrs ~W/grml $ ls -1 repos/*.deb | sed 's/_.*//' | sort -u | wc -l 189
;)
Is this just added to make the "pure" debian unstable a bit more convenient and userfriendly?
Hm yes, kind of. :) I'm running daily updates and report bugs to the Debian BTS if I notice any problems. I try to keep http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading up2date and if I notice a severe problem in Debian I try to fix it with providing the appropriate package via the grml-repos - which has a high priority in grml's apt-pinning setup (for example remember the file-rc bug #376366).
It's not perfect; nothing is. It's more perfect than stock Debian Sid, and way more up to date than Debian Stable.
Is it possible to set up grml with "testing"? Thats what i have right now, but i dont like the debian installer, and i dont want to download all the KDE-libs when choosing "desktop-install" and so on (when doin a new install on another machine). You know the hassles of the Installer :-)
I don't use such a setup on my own but I do know that there are users out there running grml successfully with setting sources.list to Debian/testing.
regards, -mika-