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James Zuelow wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 09:59, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
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>> What, pray tell, is your goal in doing a dist-upgrade almost every day?
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> Debian testing can put patches out quite often, especially for a GUI machine. I find it easier to grab the updates in small bunches instead of doing an update every week or so.
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> The downloads are smaller (sometimes) and since fewer packages are installed at one time it is easier to track changes.
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> If I am reasonably sure that nothing serious has happened, I'll do an apt-get autoclean to delete obsoleted deb files. Otherwise I can downgrade again with the old packages.
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> (That doesn't work if I don't find the problem right away and autoclean too early.)
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Ummm... Well, dist-upgrade and update (within the currently installed
distribution) are two different things. I myself update regularly
although not daily. I use dselect so I take a look at the new stuff and
sometimes the updated stuff before I do the install. I do a dist-upgrade
when I am moving from, say stable (eg.: woody) to testing (eg.: sarge)
because I know testing is slated to become stable within six months or so.
This machine is running etch the current testing, so I regularly update
and install through dselect. I probably average twice a week because I
also am updating my mirrors (i386 and amd64) first.
Maybe "dist-upgrade" was a slip of the finger although Greg did explain
the differences.
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