On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:42 AM Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: >>> I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do >>> it; there are lots of ways it can break. >> >> I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this >> a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here. > > Upgrades require interaction from time to time, such as conffile > merges. Even with packages that use debconf, the defaults you get > with the noninteractive frontend aren't always what you want.
Ah. This makes perfect sense. Good enough for me. Thanks. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
