Hi, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:07:50PM +0000, darkestkhan wrote:
You know you are arguing with people who have been using sid under controlled and considerate ways for YEARS. (Not just a year.) > 2011/3/12 John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org>: > > darkestkhan writes: > >> ...I don't see a reason why should I do dist-upgrade, after all I'm > >> running sid constantly... > > > > Because the sort of inter-release changes dist-upgrade is intended to > > handle can happen in Sid at any time. > I'm running sid / experimental so dist-upgrade in my case is almost > like throwing away half of the system; I wonder if this is because you are not used to deal with such situation. When I see problem using dist-upgrade, I may fall back to use safe-upgrade etc. But I try to use dist-upgrade after short transition period so my system does not become too skewed from the expected package transition. .... > Also frequent ( I'm doing upgrade at least 2 times a day ) upgrades > are really sorting out most of inter-release changes that may ( or may > not ) happen in Sid. You are free to enjoy your masochistic taste but advocating such things to unsuspected others may not be a good thing. safe-upgrade is useful but not bullet proof. It comes with some negatives. > Also packages in Sid or experimental can have unsatisfied > dependencies. That is how they are designed to be. > > Osamu writes: > >These are not bad idea but not that essential. > > > >You have to have a rescue media or another relatively new content > >partition which you can use to boot your system after you broke it with > >upgrade. Dual boot + Rescue GRUB disk is something I always use to save > >my recovery time. > > For entire year ( I started using GNU/Linux year ago and from the > beginning I was using sid / experimnetal ) of running sid / > experimental I never had to recover my system. You are playing with "unstable" archive after it went through most of major transition. You are lucky. In early squeeze release cycle, I was unfortunate enough to hit few glitches in packaging bugs while using "unstable" archive. GRUB and mkinitrd related bugs were not so nice. Dual boot + Rescue GRUB were essential for my recovery. (Also I needed rEFIt which is specific for MacBook.) Regards, Osamu -- 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/20110313155026.ga10...@debian.org
