On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi David, > > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it > > > does not, it could be very handy. > > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes > > don't handle them. I just regularly 'brew update;brew upgrade' on OS X > > and 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' on Linux. > A PPA is one place for apt-get to fetch packages from. > If you find apt-get update gives you 3.00, 3.01, etc., soon after > they're released, then you pulling their packages from somewhere other > than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once > released; that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past.
Oh, so it's just Hipster for "third-party repository". -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't -- Marge Simpson _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer