On 06/02/2013 12:06 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> david wrote:
>>
>> Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully
>> changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories.
>>
>> Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages,
>> and it works flawlessly.
>
> Greetings from the Debian upgrade treadmill ;-)
Been doing it for many years now.
> I've learned it works most reliably if you upgrade in two
> stages:
>
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I just verify that it won't removing major packages, and do
> a backup first if I see that the C libraries are going to change,
I always do a backup first. Have had trivial things like changes in X
video drivers make X unusable.
> Although I benefit from the developments in multimedia
> software I'm not sure I like exposing my system to so many
> opportunities for failure.
>
> A strategy I've used in past is to *not* upgrade until I
> need something. Maybe could call it it "choose your own
> freeze".
I usually just upgrade what I want when I want.
> I'm told this is sub-optimal because the package upgrade
> scripts are not tested against all previous packages.
Hmm, never heard that.
-- David gnome@email-addr-hidden authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Mon Jun 3 04:15:01 2013
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