Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 Severity: wishlist Especially in the late stages of a new release (like we have it now with potato), some sites - including us - are tempted to run production machines on frozen. This usually works fine.
However, when doing a dist-upgrade, there is a decent chance that the system will be broken by defective packages that are downloaded and installed. This is a major risk currently causing non-update of production machines at all - never touch a running system. How about having "apt-get --age 5 dist-upgrade" that only downloads and installs packages that are at least five days old? That way, one wouldn't install packages that have been very recently downloaded, and a package that reaches the age of n days can probably be regarded as sufficiently bug-free to be used on a production machine. Greetings MArc -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux paola 2.2.14 #1 Sun Feb 27 15:41:04 CET 2000 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-6 The GNU stdc++ library
