Amen to that. I run apticron to see what installed packages have updates available, but always, _always_ upgrade by hand. Anything else is begging for trouble at/near release time or during ABI changes...
--b On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: > This has happened many times in the 16 years I've been running Debian. > A stable release means lots of upheaval for a while. > > Indeed, the best thing for us mere users is to wait a week or so, then > check again to see if things are resolved. > > One more reason NEVER to do automatic package updating. Always sanity > check what apt wants to do, BEFORE it does it. > > Curt- > > - -- > Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, > for they do so with the approval of their consciences. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBTVAqXC9Y35yItIgBAQIYAQf/V3wlFm1s0pr56cUsrQTDqTpXrhWX7sr8 > 6PoZWCtZb3LihsDJUTLebNpZ3N0efXjPv0suVnPYudTo6EgiqqJDB7Lzc6GbgQTN > lwa9U/wzzahwphFyuMCuuBKSc6m0QOTr1FlBAX39GMPEEGym1Z1gdOwLXve0+LG7 > x05jm3RcVoyZ1Fm31BvBs2zIF8M/u3FZzIc6GZUdiXWETCtsHH7hc+UasGkr/80+ > N8bESehbImqVvtfsWh5WMrAKI1efKIoQQ/i5TO5+splLKdNPo+4opL9PcADnSYCv > Ah0csiLfQqIKYpbKEFHqWmnPNMCwQrjFFvXZJL9O2Pw/7hkapa1svQ== > =dHm2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102071222.36092.howl...@priss.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikKJ4ZDd874Yg0-g_Qo-CCjXjXWX7L=FVXJ=e...@mail.gmail.com
